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CONSTRUCTION 32CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY 34ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES 45

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TRADEMARKS 94TRANSFER PRICING 96TRUSTS AND ESTATES 99WHITE COLLAR CRIME 102

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AVIATION EXPERT LISTINGS

AU S T R A L I AJames M CooperClyde & CoMelbourne

B R A Z I LFelipe BonsensoCAL-Costa Albino & Lasalvia AdvogadosSão Paulo

C ANADAJasmine JinBlake Cassels & GraydonToronto

C AYMANI S L A N D SSarah HumplebyWalkersGrand Cayman

C H I L EFrancisco Prat EDel Río Izquierdo AbogadosSantiago

G E RMAN YJohannes VogelFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerFrankfurt am Main

Celine ZengFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerFrankfurt am Main

HONG KONGS A RChristopher HealyBird & BirdHong Kong

Jeffrey IpClifford ChanceHong Kong

Clara LamBryan Cave Leighton PaisnerHong Kong

Hetty LamClifford ChanceHong Kong

Jane H S ManMayer BrownHong Kong

Adam SmartKing & Wood MallesonsHong Kong

Rachel ThomasenClifford ChanceHong Kong

Eugene YeungPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanHong Kong

I N D I AAjay KumarRNClegal / Rajinder Narain & Co New Delhi

I R E L A N DDavid BerkeryA&L GoodbodyDublin

Stephen GardinerMathesonDublin

Kevin MahonyMathesonDublin

J A PANKeisuke ImonWhite & CaseTokyo

Tomohiko KamimuraSquire Patton BoggsTokyo

MA L TAMatthew XerriGanado AdvocatesValletta

N E T H E R L AN D SLaetitia KunstStekAmsterdam

S I N G A PO R ESamuel KolehmainenHerbert Smith FreehillsSingapore

Terence LiewHFWSingapore

Joanne NgBird & BirdSingapore

Ethan TanBryan Cave Leighton PaisnerSingapore

Amanda TeohHerbert Smith FreehillsSingapore

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SCharles CockrellHFWDubai

Dhruv PaulWatson Farley & WilliamsDubai

UN I T E DK I N G DOMWill AleteNorton Rose FulbrightLondon

Noelle BoyceHolland & KnightLondon


EXPERT LISTINGS AVIATION

Pete BuckleyClifford ChanceLondon

Chloe ChallinorStephenson HarwoodLondon

Tina CollierClyde & CoLondon

James CollinsStephenson HarwoodLondon

Dan CowdyNorton Rose FulbrightLondon

Nicholas HardingClyde & CoLondon

Caroline JoyceHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

Donal KeaneAllen & OveryLondon

Chris KnightPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanLondon

Manuela KrachK&L GatesLondon

Barbara PansadoroHFWLondon

Dominic PearsonWatson Farley & WilliamsLondon

John PearsonVedder PriceLondon

Jonathan C RussellSmith Gambrell & RussellLondon

Rakhi SavjaniPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanLondon

Ashleigh StandenReed SmithLondon

Thomas van der WijngaartClyde & CoLondon

Mark WatersHFWLondon

Annabelle WheelerNorton Rose FulbrightLondon/Munich

John D BrownMcAfee & TaftOklahoma City

Justine L ChilversVedder PriceNew York

Zachary CroninMilbankNew York

Mary DowCondon & ForsythNew York

Richard EvansClifford ChanceLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SRichard GillMcCann FitzGeraldNew York/Dublin

Fiona HendersonClifford ChanceNew York

Nicholas MilburnMilbankNew York

Sarah G PasseriHolland & KnightNew York

Pat ReisingerPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanNew York

Allison M SurcoufCondon ForsythNew York

Philip WeissmanClyde & CoNew York

V E N E Z U E L ARodolfo Ruiz AClyde & CoCaracas



B AN K I NG AN D F I N AN C E


ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES BANKING AND FINANCE

Adriano Antonietti advises domestic and foreign banking and financialinstitutions, as well as collective investment schemes and assetmanagers on a wide range of matters, in particular regulatory issues,private placements, the drafting of banking contracts and certain taxrelated matters (FATCA, CRS). He also defends banks and their clientsin a number of disputes and deals with all aspects of corporate andcommercial law. His main fields include financial products andservices, including regulatory aspects, as well as corporate andcommercial matters.

In 2005, Adriano Antonietti obtained a law degree (lic. iur.) from theUniversity of Fribourg. Before joining Walder Wyss he worked as asenior associate with another major law firm in Geneva and Zurich.

Adriano Antonietti speaks French, English, German, and Italian. Healso has some fair knowledge of Russian. He is registered with theGeneva Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Adriano AntoniettiWalder WyssRue d’Italie 10P.O. Box1211 Geneva 3SwitzerlandTel: (41) 58 658 30 13Email: [email protected]: www.walderwyss.com

SW I T Z E R L A N D

Fabio Elsener is a Senior Associate in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Banking& Finance group in Zurich. Fabio focuses on fintech and financialmarkets regulation, structured finance and capital marketstransactions. He advises clients regarding the legal and regulatoryimplementation of blockchain and other fintech solutions as well asfinancial services, financial instruments, fund and banking regulation.He furthermore advises clients in financing and capital marketstransactions. His clients include financial institutions, insurances andfintech companies.

Recent examples of Fabio’s expertise in Banking & Finance mattersinclude: Advising on a crypto currency lending and borrowingagreement and the documentation of a crypto currency derivativemaster agreement; drafting of a issuance program for structuredproducts under the Swiss Financial Services Act; and advising on thenew regulatory regime under the Swiss Financial Services act regardingdebt capital market transactions with a focus on issuance programs.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer, Fabio Elsener gained experiencein the Enforcement Division of the Swiss Financial Market SupervisoryAuthority (FINMA) and in the legal department of a Fintech mortgagecompany. He furthermore completed a secondment as a legal counselat a Swiss private bank.

Fabio Elsener has an LL.M. in European Law, from MaastrichtUniversity (2012) and a Master of Law from the University of Zurich(2013).

Fabio ElsenerSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19PO Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



BANKING AND FINANCE ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Dr Olivier Favre is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's banking andfinance group in Zurich. Olivier focuses on derivatives, structuredfinance and capital markets transactions, and advises clients onfinancial services, securities, commodities, fund, insurance andreinsurance regulation. He advises clients on financing and capitalmarkets transactions and on fintech solutions and their legalimplementation. His clients include financial institutions, buy-sidefirms, issuers, insurance companies and industry associations.

Olivier’s recent expertise in banking and finance matters includes:advising on the implementation of fallback clauses for derivativescontracts referencing LIBOR benchmarks; advising on the compliancewith initial margin requirements for uncleared OTC derivativestransactions; drafting the netting opinion published by the ISDA forinternational financial institutions set up in Switzerland; advising onthe issuance of high-yield debt instruments; registering programmesfor the issuance of structured products, warrants and debt instrumentswith SIX Swiss Exchange; advising on the issuance of stable coinsbacked by crypto assets; advising on Swiss law aspects of Brexitplanning; and advising on the enforceability of a new masteragreement for securities lending transactions with pledging of assets ascollateral.

Olivier obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Zurich (iur,2003) and a master’s in law from Harvard Law School (LLM, 2004).For his doctoral thesis, he received the Issekutz Award for outstandingachievements in business law.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer in 2009, Olivier practised as anattorney in London, specialising in OTC derivatives and structuredfinance transactions, fund products and capital markets transactions.He also worked as an associate at Allen & Overy (2004–2007) and aslegal counsel at Goldman Sachs (2007–2009).

Olivier FavreSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch


Tarek Houdrouge is co-head of Schellenberg Wittmer’s banking andfinance group; partner in the corporate and commercial group inGeneva; and head of the firm’s African regional desk.

Tarek’s main areas of expertise are banking and finance, transactions,and corporate law. He advises banks and financial institutions on allregulatory matters; cross-border activities; lending transactions;distribution of financial products; and fintech and cryptocurrency.

Some recent examples of Tarek’s expertise include: advising a majorEuropean bank with a strong international presence in the acquisitionsand disposals of strategic clients’ banking portfolios; advising on theset-up of a new cryptocurrencies exchange platform in Switzerland,including the regulatory analysis of all financial regulations, advisingon investments (including Series A and B financing) in Fintechcompanies active in blockchain technologies; reviewing bank accountopening documentation for Swiss banks; advising with respect toderivatives transactions, the implementation of the regulation of suchtransactions under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act anddrafting of the derivatives directives; advising banks and financialservices providers on the implementation of the new Financial ServicesAct; and advising a leading European bank on all regulatory aspects inthe development of its online private banking offer and additional e-banking services.

Tarek studied at the University of Lausanne Law School where hegraduated with a law degree (2003) and with an LLM in European andinternational economic law (2004). After he was admitted to the Bar inSwitzerland in 2006, he worked as an associate in the banking andcorporate groups of a large business law firm in Geneva. He obtaineda Master of Laws from Northwestern University School of Law(Chicago) in 2010 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2011.

Tarek Houdrouge Schellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES BANKING AND FINANCE

Grégoire Wuest is a partner and co-head of the banking and financepractice in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Geneva office. He is also the head ofthe firm’s Brazilian regional desk. His practice focuses on banking andfinance, in particular in the field of multi-jurisdictional transactionsinvolving non-standard and highly valuable assets securingborrowings, complex cross-border acquisitions, and other financialtransactions – notably in relation to the shipping and business aviationindustries. Grégoire also advises Swiss and foreign financialinstitutions on all regulatory matters, fintech and cryptocurrency,cross-border activities and on the implementation of new regulations.

Grégoire’s recent expertise in banking includes: advising a majorEuropean banking group in a large banking restructuring involving aninternational cross-border merger; advising a major Swiss bank with astrong international presence in the acquisitions/disposals of strategicclients’ banking portfolios; advising a major European banking groupin financings worth hundreds of millions of euros secured by exoticassets; advising banks and financial services providers on theimplementation of the new Financial Services Act; and advising severalSwiss banks on the redrafting and amendment of its entire contractualdocumentation and all internal regulations and improving e-bankingfor clients.

Grégoire studied at the University of Geneva and was admitted to theSwiss Bar in 2009 (ranked second). Grégoire has been a partner atSchellenberg Wittmer since 2016.

Grégoire WuestSchellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected] Website: www.swlegal.ch


Sait Eryılmaz heads the Finance practice of the Firm. He is specialisedin banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on projectfinance and structured finance.

Over the past years Sait has held a key position at the forefront ofTurkish infrastructure and energy transactions, taking part in manynotable projects including PPPs. He has been acting for banks, ECAs,Islamic and conventional financial institutions, sponsors and othertransaction parties in domestic and international project financings,including PPPs, infrastructure, transportation (roads, railways andairports) energy projects, oil and gas, and privatisations.

Sait holds an extensive experience in finance including restructurings,syndicated financings, project financings, Islamic financings,securitisations and other structured financings along withrepresenting issuers and underwriters in both debt and equityofferings including eurobond, sukuk and covered bond offerings inand outside Turkey.

Highlights of his experience includes advising the financiers in respectof the financing of the Ankara- Niğde Motorway; the financiers inrespect of the refinancing of the Kınalı-Odayeri and Kurtköy-Akyazısections of the Northern Marmara Motorway; Turkey SovereignWealth Fund in connection with its debut international borrowingEUR 1 billion syndicated loan; the lenders on the financing of thelargest acquisition of hydroelectric power plants in Turkey; theprivatisation of Menzelet and Kılavuzlu, financing of Elazıg integratedhealth campus using the first ever greenfield project bond structure inthe Turkish PPP market; and the finance parties in connection with theBursa Integrated Health Campus PPP Project.

Sait Eryılmaz holds a law degree from Istanbul Bilgi University (2009).He is admitted to Istanbul Bar, speaks English and Turkish.

Sait EryilmazCIFTCI Law FirmKanyon Ofis Binası Kat 10 BüyükdereCad. No. 185Istanbul 34394 TurkeyTel: (90) 212 339 00 60Email: [email protected]: www.ciftcilaw.com.tr

T U R K E Y


BANKING AND FINANCE ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

John R. Sobolewski is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’sRestructuring and Finance Department. His multidisciplinary practiceincludes a broad range of finance, securities, restructuring and relatedmatters, including leveraged M&A, public and private capital marketstransactions, complex syndicated bank financings, and in-court andout-of-court workouts. He has unique expertise representingcompanies in connection with rapid response efforts to debt defaultactivism and net-short debt activism situations.

John has represented borrower clients in numerous major corporatefinancing transactions, including T-Mobile in connection with itsacquisition of Sprint and its related $38.0 billion of financingcommitments and $39.0 billion of consent solicitations; Intelsat inconnection with over $6.0 billion of issuances of high-yield, holdco,and convertible notes, as well as related bond tender offers and openmarket purchases; Lions Gate in its $4.5 billion of bank and bondtransactions in connection with its acquisition of Starz, and itssubsequent repricing transactions and bond exchanges; Zoetis in its$1.0 billion of bank financing for its acquisition of Abaxis; XPOLogistics in its €3.24 billion acquisition of Norbert Dentressangle S.A.and $3 billion acquisition of Con-Way, and its subsequent refinancingsand repricings; Office Depot in its $750 million term loan facility tofinance its acquisition of CompuCom; Publicis in its $3.5 billionbridge and permanent financing in connection with its acquisition ofSapient; and Apollo in its $1.0 billion buyout of Presidio, and Presidio’ssubsequent refinancing transaction and leveraged stock buyback.

John also frequently represents sellers in financing matters relating tomajor M&A transactions, including Celgene in its sale to Bristol-MyersSquibb, Monsanto in its sale to Bayer, Whole Foods in its sale toAmazon.com, Envision in its sale to KKR, and Convergys in its sale toSynnex.

John has represented key stakeholders in multiple major public andprivate debt default activism situations. He has additionallyrepresented clients such as Goldman Sachs, GSO Capital Partners, andBank of Nova Scotia in workout and restructuring situations.

John received a B.A. summa cum laude from Boston College in 2005. Hecompleted a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2008.

John SobolewskiWachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York, NY 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1340Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com

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BANKING AND FINANCE EXPERT LISTINGS

A RG EN T I N ADaniel LeviBeccar VarelaBuenos Aires

C ANADADan DedicGoodmansToronto

Matthew LippaNorton Rose FulbrightToronto

David S RotchtinBennett JonesToronto

Dev SinghFasken Martineau DuMoulinToronto

C H ANN E LI S L A N D SKate McCaffreyOgierJersey

C Z E C HR E P U B L I CAndrea AdamcováBBHPrague

Lukáš HronBaker McKenziePrague

Petra MyšákováAllen & OveryPrague

F I N L AN DMariella Både-LandellCastrén & SnellmanHelsinki

Maria LehtimäkiWaselius & WistHelsinki

G E RMAN YAlexander KleinGibson Dunn & CrutcherFrankfurt am Main

Stanislav SchmidtBird & BirdFrankfurt am Main

HONG KONGS A RJacqueline ChanRopes & GrayHong Kong

I R E L A N DLyn BrennanWilliam FryDublin

Niamh McMahonA&L GoodbodyDublin

MA L TALeonard BonelloGANADO AdvocatesValletta

Lorraine PooleGANADO AdvocatesValletta

M E X I C OMercedes HaddadCreel García-Cuéllar Aiza y EnríquezMexico City

N E T H E R L AN D SNienke van StekelenburghClifford ChanceAmsterdam

N EW Z E A L AN DDaniel CollinsBuddle FindlayAuckland

Gerard SounessChapman TrippAuckland

NO RWAYSunniva KinsellaSimonsen Vogt WiigOslo

Halvor KlingenbergSimonsen Vogt WiigOslo

P O R T UGA LAndré AbrantesPLMJLisbon

ROMAN I APoliana Gogu NaumRTPR Allen & OveryBucharest

Codrin LuPopovici Ni u Stoica & Asocia iiBucharest

R U S S I ASergey BlinovAllen & OveryMoscow

S I N G A PO R EKaveeta SandhuHogan Lovells Lee & LeeSingapore

Cara StevensAshurstSingapore

S PA I NEugenio Fernández-RicoClifford ChanceMadrid

Jon GoirigolzarriJ&A GarriguesMadrid


EXPERT LISTINGS BANKING AND FINANCE

SW E D E NAlbert WållgrenVingeStockholm

SW I T Z E R L A N DAdriano Antonietti See bioWalder WyssGeneva

David BorerHomburgerZürich

Fabio Elsener See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Olivier Favre See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Tarek Houdrouge See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

Adrian KollerNiederer Kraft FreyZürich

Benjamin LeisingerHomburgerZürich

Philip SpoerléBaker McKenzieZürich

Markus WolfBaker McKenzieZürich

Grégoire Wuest See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

T U R K E YBerk CinEsin Attorney PartnershipIstanbul

Sait Eryilmaz See bioYegin Ciftci AttorneyIstanbul

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SGraham BrewerClifford ChanceDubai

Marie ChowdhryPinsent MasonsDubai

UN I T E DK I N G DOMBlanca ArlabánUría MenéndezLondon

Sameera KimatraiAllen & OveryDubai

Nikki JohnstoneAllen & OveryLondon

Amy KennedyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldLondon

Sarbajeet NagMilbankLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SDanielle LiSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomNew York

John Sobolewski See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York



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EXPERT LISTINGS CAPITAL MARKETS

B E L G I UMGéraldine BourguignonCleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonBrussels

B R A Z I LThomas B AyresPaul HastingsSão Paulo

Guilherme Sampaio MonteiroPinheiro Neto AdvogadosSão Paulo

C ANADAMichael HickeyBlake Cassels & GraydonToronto

F R AN C ESoline LouvignyAllen & OveryParis

Andrew McCannClifford ChanceParis

G E RMAN YAlexander RetschGlade Michel WirtzDüsseldorf

HONG KONGS A RJaclyn YeapAllen & OveryHong Kong

I R E L A N DRichard KellyMathesonDublin

N E T H E R L AN D SMeno BaksLinklatersAmsterdam

Yvette VoermansHogan LovellsAmsterdam

S I N G A PO R EJames McFarlaneMilbankSingapore

Daniel MokHogan Lovells Lee & LeeSingapore

S L O VA KR E P U B L I CPeter JedinakAllen & OveryBratislava

SW I T Z E R L A N DChristine HohlNiederer Kraft FreyZürich

Yves MauchleBaker McKenzieZürich

Alexander von JeinsenBär & KarrerZürich

T U R K E YHasan H YasarPekin & PekinIstanbul

UN I T E DK I N G DOMPeter CrossanAllen & OveryLondon

Jacqueline HengNorton Rose FulbrightLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SYasin KeshvargarDavis Polk & WardwellNew York



COMM E R C I A L A R B I T R AT I ON

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ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

Julie Raneda, MCIArb is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’sinternational arbitration practice in Singapore. She represents clientsin international commercial, investment and sports arbitrationmatters.

Julie has been involved as counsel and arbitrator in complexarbitrations seated in civil and common law jurisdictions under manydifferent laws and various arbitration rules (in particular ICC, SCAI,SIAC, UNCITRAL, CAS, VIAC). Her main areas of expertise includeconstruction and engineering, energy, pharmaceutical/life sciences,manufacturing and international sales. She also advises clients oninternational trade sanctions.

Examples of Julie’s expertise in arbitration include representing anAsian state-owned company in ICC proceedings seated in Switzerlandrelated to a dispute in the engineering and construction sector;representing a leading pharmaceutical company in a dispute arisingfrom a manufacturing and supply agreement; representing an Asiancompany in a high-value, multi-party and multi-contract dispute andrepresenting a state in several investment arbitrations.

After completing a degree in international relations at the GraduateInstitute Geneva, Julie graduated with a law degree from the Universityof Geneva. Julie Raneda joined Schellenberg Wittmer in 2008. She alsopracticed at a leading international law firm in London in 2014–2015.

Julie regularly speaks on topics related to arbitration. She is the chairof the ASA South East Asia Chapter, vice chair of the IPBA NextGeneration Committee and a member of the YSIAC Committee. Julieis also a member of the SIAC Users Council. She is a co-founder of theWomen’s Business Society established in Geneva in 2012.

Julie Raneda Schellenberg Wittmer6 Battery Road, #37-02049909 SingaporeTel: (65) 6580 2249Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch

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The Reform of Swiss InternationalArbitration Law has entered HomeStretch—an UpdateJohannes Landbrecht (left) and Axel Buhr (right) GABRIEL ArbitrationZurich

Making Something Excellent Even BetterSwiss law on international arbitration is part of the Swiss Private In-ternational Law Act (PILA) as its Chapter 12. Swiss law on domesticarbitration is part of the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure. Arbitrationproceedings are international, according to Swiss law, if at least one ofthe parties to the arbitration agreement, at the time of its signing, isnot domiciled in Switzerland. Furthermore, the parties, in domesticcases, can opt in to Swiss international arbitration law, whereas in in-ternational cases, they can opt out of Swiss international arbitrationlaw, choosing domestic arbitration law instead.The current version of Chapter 12 PILA was enacted, subject to

very minor subsequent amendments, in 1989. It has been a successstory with parties from all over the world. Parties value its clarity, itsprecision, and its simplicity. While Chapter 12 PILA covers by andlarge the same issues as the UNCITRAL Model Law 1985, the Swisslegislator decided to enact an independent and unique version of anarbitration law. In a nutshell, it would seem that the main feature ofSwiss international arbitration law, singling it out amongst arbitrationlaws from other jurisdictions, is its high regard for party autonomy.Given its overall success, one may question whether Swiss interna-

tional arbitration law even requires fundamental reform. While athorough review process was launched in order to assess possibleshortcomings and areas that might need improvement, and theZurich University of Applied Sciences School of Management andLaw was tasked with an in-depth market and regulatory cost assess-ment study, it quickly turned out that the current Swiss internationalarbitration law was already highly competitive in an internationalarena, served its users and other stakeholderswell, and did not require major adjustments.Yet, in 2012, the Swiss parliament, eager not

to rest on its laurels, requested the government,i.e. the Swiss Federal Council, to prepare a draftbill that “preserves the attractiveness of Switzer-land as an international arbitration hub”. Fol-lowing the release of a first draft in 2017 andsubsequent public consultations, the Swiss Fed-eral Council, in 2018, issued a revised draft thatfocuses on three main objectives:• codification of case law of the Swiss Fed-eral Court;

• rendering Chapter 12 even more userfriendly; and

• further strengthening party autonomy in line with internationaldevelopments.The most important innovation, from a practical perspective, may

have been the proposed possibility to make, in the context of annul-ment proceedings, submissions to the Swiss Federal Court in English.We had reported on these developments already in last year’s ExpertGuide.After consultation in the two chambers of the Swiss parliament,

the second chamber finally adopted the reform, with only minoramendments, on 9 June 2020. It is therefore time for a brief update.

Submissions to the Swiss Federal Court in EnglishToday, any submissions to the Swiss Federal Court must be filed in

one of the official languages (German,French, Italian, or Romansh). Exhibits in alanguage other than German, French, or Ital-ian must be filed together with a translation.This rule even includes exhibits in English,which are accepted by the Swiss Federal Courtwithout translation only where all partiesagree.The language requirements of the Swiss

Federal Court conflict with the fact that themajority of international arbitration proceed-ings seated in Switzerland are conducted inthe English language and may involve partieswho are not fluent in any of the official lan-guages. In these cases, translating a party’s

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION


own (draft) submissions and those of the other party can be a verycostly and time-consuming task. In annulment proceedings, wheretime is of the essence especially for the applicant (who must prepareand file a request to set aside an international arbitral award within amere 30 days from receipt), translating drafts and documents can be adaunting exercise.The government’s draft bill enabled the filing of submissions in

English in order to make annulment proceedings for many foreignparties much more user friendly. The chamber of the Swiss parlia-ment first reviewing the draft bill proposed to go even further and re-quested that the Swiss Federal Tribunal be obliged to also provide asigned English translation of its decisions. However, the other cham-ber of the Swiss parliament rejected this proposal in its entirety. Afterfurther consultation, the two chambers agreed, as a compromise, toadopt the government’s initial proposal: the Swiss Federal Tribunalwill, in the future, accept submissions in English, although its deci-sions will not be translated into English. This is likely to be seen as amajor improvement of Swiss arbitration law in practice.

Codification of Case Law of the Swiss Federal CourtThe draft bill further sought to bring the text of Chapter 12 PILA upto date with the case law of the Swiss Federal Court and to clarify cer-tain open issues that are currently not dealt with in Swiss interna-tional arbitration law.In line with the case law of the Swiss Federal Court and Swiss do-

mestic arbitration law, the draft bill provided for the right of a partyto request the arbitral tribunal to correct typographical errors in itsaward, to explain considerations in its award, or to render an addi-tional award on claims omitted.Furthermore, the draft bill confirmed the right of a party to request, in

limited cases, a reopening of the proceedings by way of a decision of theSwiss Federal Court (Revision / review), in addition to the right to requestthe setting aside of the award. These limited cases include situationswhere (i) relevant facts or evidence come to light after the completion ofthe arbitration proceedings; where (ii) criminal investigations show thatthe award was tainted by illegality; and/or where (iii) circumstances havecome to light after the completion of the arbitration proceedings that callinto question an arbitrator’s independence or impartiality.In line with the case law of the Swiss Federal Court and Swiss do-

mestic arbitration law, the draft bill also provided that a party forfeitsits right to object to a violation of procedural rules if the objection isnot promptly raised.Responding to uncertainties created by the case law of the Swiss

Federal Court, the draft bill expressly clarified that arbitration pro-ceedings are international if one party to the arbitration agreementwas not domiciled in Switzerland at the time the agreement wassigned. The parties’ domicile at the time the proceedings are com-menced is irrelevant in this respect.

Finally, the draft bill clarified that any ancillary proceedings beforeSwiss state courts (the so-called juge d’appui) are governed by therules on summary proceedings.The Swiss parliament, by and large, accepted these proposals of the

Swiss government.

Rendering Chapter 12 Even More User FriendlyThe draft bill sought to render Swiss international arbitration lawmore user friendly for international users.With this goal in mind, the government proposed to further

strengthen the character of Chapter 12 as a self-contained set of rules,by removing references to the provisions of the Swiss Code of CivilProcedure and incorporating the content of those provisions directlyinto Chapter 12.Furthermore, the draft bill sought to unify the form requirements

for all arbitration-related agreements.The two chambers of the Swiss parliament had also no objections

to this aspect of the government’s draft bill.

Further strengthening Party AutonomyFinally, in line with the prevailing view in Switzerland, the draft billexpressly confirmed that arbitration clauses included in unilateralacts, such as for example in a will or a trust deed, can have legal force.This amendment is a welcome confirmation that international succes-sion and trust matters can be safely submitted to arbitration inSwitzerland.The Swiss parliament again had no objections.

ConclusionThe reform of Chapter 12 PILA was thus welcomed by the Swissparliament without major changes. The most visible improve-ment, from a practical perspective, and in particular for interna-tional parties, will be the possibility to file annulmentsubmissions with the Swiss Federal Tribunal in English. This is ahuge step in the direction of making the Swiss Federal Tribunal asaccessible to international parties as its counterparts in the En-glish-speaking world.The reform contains also many other improvements, but the leg-

islator refrains from extensive reconstruction works. For the users ofSwiss international arbitration, this is good news. Chapter 12 PILA,under the wise guidance given by the Swiss Federal Court, has beenworking well for many years. Rather than simply following interna-tional trends, Swiss international arbitration law has in fact devel-oped and shaped many of those trends over the past decades. Inaddition, Swiss international arbitration law of the future will beeven more accessible and transparent, with the reform further en-hancing clarity and precision as well as the user friendliness of Swissinternational arbitration.


COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Anne-Carole Cremades is a counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’sinternational arbitration group in Geneva. She specialises ininternational commercial arbitration and investment arbitration.

Anne-Carole has acted as counsel before international arbitraltribunals in a broad range of disputes involving inter alia oil and gascontracts, joint venture agreements, share purchase agreements, salesand distribution contracts, international construction contracts as wellas investment disputes between states and foreign investors. She hashandled arbitrations under the rules of ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SCAIand before the PCA, in English, French and Spanish.

Anne-Carole has also represented parties before the Swiss SupremeCourt in proceedings related to challenges of arbitral awards renderedboth in commercial and investment arbitrations. Anne-Caroleregularly sits as arbitrator.

Examples of Anne-Carole’s expertise in arbitration matters includerepresentation of a Qatari company in a dispute regarding thetermination of a subcontract for the construction of an airport in theMiddle East; representation of a Turkish company in a disputeregarding manufacturing of consumer electronics; representation of aNorth-African state-owned company in a dispute relating to a waterdesalinisation plant and project finance issues and representation ofthe Russian Federation in several investment treaty cases.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer, Anne-Carole worked as anassociate in a renowned Paris law firm. Additionally, she was a teachingassistant in contract law at the University of Paris and a trainee lawyerin a Madrid based-law firm.

Anne-Carole Cremades is a member of several professionalassociations, including the Spanish Club of Arbitration (CEA), theComité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA), the Swiss ArbitrationAssociation (ASA) and ICDR Young & International. She has beenpresident of the Swiss chapter of the Spanish Club of Arbitration(CEA). She has authored various publications on internationalarbitration issues and regularly speaks at arbitration conferences.

Anne-Carole Cremades Schellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch


Anya George is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s dispute resolutiongroup in Zürich. Her practice focuses on international commercialarbitration and litigation. She represents states, state-owned entitiesand private companies in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes acrossa wide range of sectors with particular emphasis on insurance andreinsurance, energy, natural resources and manufacturing and salesagreements.

Anya has acted in numerous arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, CAS,UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules and in ad hoc proceedings. Anya hasspecial expertise in arbitration-related litigation, includingenforcement and setting-aside proceedings before the Swiss SupremeCourt, in both French and German. She also advises clients on businessand human rights issues.

Examples of Anya’s recent matters include: representing amultinational insurance company in a suite of multi-million dollararbitrations; representing MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Plcin setting-aside proceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court in adispute with the Republic of Croatia; and successfully representing 39Russian athletes who challenged their disqualification from the SochiGames and their lifetime Olympic bans by the International OlympicCommittee (IOC) before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Anya is trilingual (English/French/German) and dual-qualified as aSwiss attorney and a solicitor of England and Wales. She is a co-chairof the LCIA’s Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) and anassociate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Anya speaks andpublishes regularly on a variety of international arbitration topics.

Anya GeorgeSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

Dr Anna Kozmenko is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s disputeresolution group in Zurich. She represents state and private entities inhigh profile international disputes, including complex litigations,commercial and investment arbitrations as well as sports disputes. Shealso regularly sits as arbitrator.

Anna’s experience includes numerous arbitrations, both ad hoc andinstitutional (under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, VIAC, AAA/ICDR, DIS, CAS,UNCITRAL, PCA, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility and Swiss rules),at various seats and under a broad range of applicable laws.

Anna’s recent notable matters include: representation of the RussianFederation in several investment arbitration matters and set asideproceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court; representation, beforethe CAS, of 39 Russian athletes who had been wrongly banned for lifefrom the Olympic Games amid allegations of a systematic dopingscheme around the Sochi Olympic Games; and the successful defenseof Gazprom Neft PJSC before a Swiss court against the European Bankfor Reconstruction and Development.

Anna is an adjunct professor of law at the University Of ArkansasSchool Of Law, where she teaches international commercialarbitration. She is also a visiting Lecturer at the Lomonosov MoscowState University and the Moscow State Institute of InternationalRelations. She is a past-immediate co-chair of ICDR Young &International. Anna was named as “top arbitration practitioner” by theRussian Arbitration Association every year from 2014 to 2018.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer, Anna practiced at a leadinginternational law firm in Paris and New York. She graduated withhighest honors from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (BA, MAand doctorate degrees) and obtained an LLM degree in internationaldispute settlement from the University of Geneva (MIDS).

Anna KozmenkoSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19PO Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch


Dr. Johannes Landbrecht sits as arbitrator and practises as counsel atthe arbitration boutique law firm GABRIEL Arbitration in Zurich,specialising in and regularly advising on international arbitration(including arbitration-related court proceedings), transnationaldispute resolution (including cross-border litigation and mediation),and conflict of laws issues.

Johannes has a unique transnational legal background, as regards (a)his professional experience – having previously worked in top-tierarbitration practices in Frankfurt/Main, Paris, Geneva, and Singapore;(b) his professional training – being admitted to the bar in Germany(2008), Switzerland (2018), and England & Wales (barrister, 2014); butalso in light of (c) his academic training – having studied, inter alia, atthe Universities of Konstanz (Mag jur, 2006), London InternationalProgrammes (LLB, 2011), and Geneva (PhD, 2012).

Given his legal background and training, Johannes is exceptionally wellplaced to advise on disputes involving more than one jurisdiction, onthe part of the applicable laws as much as with regard to the partiesand individuals involved (for instance the arbitrators and opposingcounsel). Most importantly, Johannes efficiently bridges the commonlaw / civil law divide that exists in some areas of law. Johannes therebycreates considerable additional value for parties and clients.

Johannes focuses on energy and IP-related disputes, but he has alsoacted as arbitrator and counsel (including for several Fortune 500companies) in a wide variety of other disputes, including privateequity, construction, agency, joint venture, and post-M&A. He hasacted in proceedings under the arbitration rules, inter alia, of the ICC,LCIA, Swiss Chambers, UNCITRAL, DIAC, SCC, VIAC, and WIPO.

To keep up to date with recent developments and further build hisexpertise, Johannes is a regular speaker at and organizer of conferencesand events in the area of dispute resolution around the globe, whilealso serving as a regional coordinator of DIS40 in Switzerland. Heregularly publishes on arbitration and disputes-related topics, actingalso as a co-editor of the Swiss Arbitration Association’s ASA Bulletin.

Johannes has been invited to serve as Lecturer at the University ofZurich as well as at the University of Münster in Germany.

Johannes practises in English, French, and German.

Johannes LandbrechtGABRIEL Arbitration Rämistrasse 68001 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 206 20 80Email: [email protected]: www.gabriel-arbitration.ch



COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Dr Stefan Leimgruber is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s disputeresolution group in Zurich. His main areas of practice are domesticand international commercial arbitration and litigation. He has actedas counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations, both ad hoc andinstitutional (including ICC, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, WIPO,CEPANI), in a wide range of commercial disputes, including disputesarising from international joint ventures, shareholder and sharepurchase agreements, sales, licensing and distribution agreements andconstruction contracts. Stefan also represents parties before Swisscourts with a particular focus on banking, post-M&A and corporatelitigation, interim measures and enforcement of foreign judgmentsand awards.

Recent experience in arbitration matters includes: counsel to two Swisscompanies in a post-M&A dispute following the rescission of a sharepurchase agreement by the sellers (CEPANI Arbitration Rules);representation of athletes and sports federations in arbitralproceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) andbefore state courts; counsel to an international trading company in aSwiss Rules arbitration initiated by the buyer of large quantities of steelbars because of alleged quality issues.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer in 2007, Stefan worked at theZurich District Court, first as a legal secretary and later as a judge,mainly dealing with debt enforcement, civil attachments, injunctions,and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. From 2010 to2011, Stefan was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney LawSchool, where he conducted extensive research in the fields ofinternational arbitration and transnational litigation. He obtained adoctorate in law from the University of Lucerne in 2013 for his thesison negative declaratory relief in international arbitration inSwitzerland.

Stefan LeimgruberSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 52 52Email: [email protected] Website: www.swlegal.ch


Sebastiano Nessi is a counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Geneva office.Trained in both civil and common law, Sebastiano specialises ininternational arbitration and commercial litigation.

Sebastiano’s clients and cases have spanned most continents, includingEurope, Asia, South America and Africa. He has handled arbitrationsunder the rules of the CEPANI, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC,SCAI, and before the PCA.

Sebastiano has represented states, state-owned entities and privatecompanies in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes across a widerange of sectors with a particular focus on energy, commodities,pharmaceuticals, joint ventures, aerospace, sports and constructiondisputes. Sebastiano has also acted as counsel in several investmenttreaty cases, advised clients on the structuring of their investments, aswell as states on the negotiation and drafting of trade and investmenttreaties. Sebastiano regularly sits as arbitrator.

Sebastiano Nessi has written and spoken widely on arbitration, as wellas teaching commercial and investment arbitration at the University ofParis I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Law School (2013–2017).

Sebastiano was appointed ICC YAF Representative for Europe andRussia. He is also a steering committee member of the YoungArbitration Practitioners group of the Chartered Institute ofArbitrators (CIArb YMG).

Sebastiano Nessi graduated from the University of Geneva in 2004(summa cum laude) and was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in2006. In 2009, he earned a Master of Laws (LLM) from Columbia LawSchool (New York). In 2015, he obtained the CAS in arbitration jointlyoffered by the Universities of Lucerne and Neuchâtel.

Sebastiano NessiSchellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



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AU S T R A L I APeter HarrisClifford ChancePerth

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Eric LeikinFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerVienna

BO L I V I ABernardo A Wayar OcampoWayar & von BorriesLa Paz

B R A Z I LLuis Henrique BorghiTrench Rossi WatanabeSão Paulo

C ANADAChristina DoriaBaker McKenzieToronto

C H I N AHelen TangHerbert Smith FreehillsShanghai

E C U A DO RDavid ToscanoFerrereQuito

F I N L AN DAnna-Maria TamminenHannes SnellmanHelsinki

F R AN C EVincent BouvardHerbert Smith FreehillsParis

David BurkeQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanParis

Simon ElliotThree CrownsParis

Gaëlle FilholBetto Perben Pradel FilholParis

Athina Fouchard PapaefstratiouEversheds SutherlandParis

Emily FoxHerbert Smith FreehillsParis

Thomas GranierAsafo & CoParis

Anne-Marie LacosteQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanParis

Alexander J MarcopoulosShearman & SterlingParis

Théobald NaudDLA PiperParis

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Paschalis PaschalidisShearman & SterlingParis

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Martin C MekatFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerFrankfurt am Main

Sebastian D MüllerKing & SpaldingFrankfurt am Main

Tilman NiedermaierCMS Hasche SigleMunich

Katharina PetersBusse DisputesFrankfurt am Main


COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION EXPERT LISTINGS

Tom Christopher PröstlerCMS Hasche SigleBerlin

Georg ScherpfLutherHamburg

Moritz SchmittFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerFrankfurt am Main

Susanne Zwirlein-ForschnerSernetz • SchäferMunich

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Anna Giulia TeviniShearman & SterlingHong Kong

I N D I ARishab GuptaShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & CoMumbai

I TA L YFabio CozziDelfino e AssociatiMilan

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P O L AN DMaciej DurbasKubas Kos GałkowskiWarsaw

P O R T UGA LRute AlvesPLMJLisbon

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Matilde Líbano MonteiroVdA Vieira de AlmeidaLisbon

R U S S I AOleg ToduaWhite & CaseMoscow

S I N G A PO R ESheila AhujaAllen & OverySingapore

Julie Raneda See bioSchellenberg WittmerSingapore

Aditya SinghWhite & CaseSingapore

Daniel WaldekHerbert Smith FreehillsSingapore

S O U T H K O R E AWoojae KimBae Kim & LeeSeoul

S PA I NVictor Bonnin ReynesVBArbitrationMadrid

SW I T Z E R L A N DBrendan CaseyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldGeneva

Anne-Carole Cremades See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

Lorraine de GerminyLaliveGeneva

Rahul DondeLévy Kaufmann-KohlerGeneva

Anya George See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Aylin Güney KingBonnard LawsonGeneva

Eva KalninaLévy Kaufmann-KohlerGeneva

Anna Kozmenko See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Catherine Anne KunzLaliveGeneva

Johannes Landbrecht See bioGABRIEL ArbitrationZürich

Stefan Leimgruber See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Olivier MosimannKellerhals CarrardBasel

Sebastiano Nessi See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

Michele PotestàLévy Kaufmann-KohlerGeneva

Marco StacherWalder WyssZürich

Nhu-Hoang Tran ThrangPeter & KimGeneva

Simon VorburgerQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanZürich


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U K R A I N EDmytro DonenkoEngardeKyiv

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Naomi BriercliffeAllen & OveryLondon

Daniel G CostelloeWilmerHaleLondon

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Jerome FinnisHogan LovellsLondon

Sarah GanzWilmerHaleLondon

Emilie GoninDoughty Street ChambersLondon

Matthieu Gregoire4 New SquareLondon

Edward HamiltonClyde & CoLondon

David IngleAllen & OveryLondon

Sabrina JanzikClyde & CoLondon

Dominic Kennelly3VBLondon

Valeriya KirseyBaker BottsLondon

Simon MaynardKing & SpaldingLondon

Dharshini PrasadWilmerHaleLondon

Marija ScekicWilmerHaleLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SKabir DuggalArnold & PorterNew York

Viren MascarenhasKing & SpaldingNew York

Ina C PopovaDebevoise & PlimptonNew York

Jonathan J ThompkinsShearman & SterlingNew York

Gretta WaltersChaffetz LindseyNew York



COM P E T I T I O N AN D AN T I T R U S T


ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST

Hristina Dzhevlekova is a Counsel at Wolf Theiss with over eight yearsof experience in the areas of competition, regulatory and employmentlaw. She is experienced senior lawyer with a demonstrated history ofworking on landmark cases in Bulgaria and CEE.

In her practice, Hristina advises on a range of EU and localcompetition matters, including in specific regulated sectors such aspharmaceuticals, telecommunication, automotive, etc. She focusesmainly on antitrust law, in particular in assessment of vertical andhorizontal agreements, application of various distribution and agencysystems, market policies applied by dominant undertakings, etc.Hristina was advising on the competition and regulatory aspects in thecompletion of the first National Roaming Agreement in Bulgaria andrecently, represented one of the global manufacturers of innovativemedicines in a challenging dominance case before the BulgarianCompetition Protection Commission. Her competition law expertiseincludes further a number of successfully completed merger clearanceprocedures in Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

Skilled at Employment Law and TUPE transfers, she also advises onsensitive employment cases (dismissal of top-tier personnel, mass-dismissals, negotiations with unions), structuring of employmentrelations upon commercial transactions, representation in legaldisputes and internal compliance investigations.

Hristina is a qualified Bulgarian attorney-at-law. She has an honorsMaster of Law Degree from the Sofia University and obtained withDistinction a Diploma on English and EU Law from BLC (ass.Cambridge University). Hristina graduated with honors a PD on(Advanced) EU Competition Law from King’s College and was thewinner in the category “Rising Star Bulgaria” at the 2019IFLR/Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe Rising Stars Awards.

Recognized by clients and peers, she is among the young generation ofleading lawyers ranked by Chambers Europe and Legal 500 on theBulgarian legal market.

Hristina DzhevlekovaWolf Theiss55 Nikola Vaptsarov Blvd1407 SofiaBulgariaTel: (359) 2 8613 700Email: [email protected]: www.wolftheiss.com

B U L G A R I A

Dr Frank Bremer is a Counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Competitionand Antitrust law team in Zurich. With over 10 years’ experience inSwiss and EU competition law, Frank has represented clients incomplex antitrust investigations and merger notifications in a varietyof areas such as construction tendering, sports broadcasting rights,postal services and aircraft manufacturing.

Frank has high-profile competition law expertise across numerousinvestigations by the Swiss Competition Authority, as well as appeals tothe higher courts of Switzerland. His fields of expertise includeAntitrust, Merger Control, State Aid, Leniency Programmes, DawnRaids, Administrative Law, Compliance & Internal Investigations,Energy Law, Sports Broadcasting Rights, Distribution, Telecoms andPostal Regulation.

Recent examples of Frank’s expertise in competition and antitrust lawinclude: Advising Credit Suisse, one of the leading Swiss Banks, in acompetition law investigation by the Swiss Competition Commission;representing dacoso GmbH, an international reseller and provider ofnetwork and data security products, in an investigation by the SwissCompetition Commission which was accompanied by a dawn raid,and providing legal advice to the utilities companies Energie WasserLuzern and Erdgas Zentralschweiz in a competition investigationconcerning access to the gas infrastructure and landmark regulatoryissues of energy market liberalization.

Frank Bremer’s PhD on Sanctions against natural persons in Swisscompetition law was awarded the prestigious Walter Hug-Price foroutstanding PhD dissertations. Frank has been a lecturer at theUniversity of St Gallen since 2009 and is recognized repeatedly as aFuture Leader in competition law by various leading legal publications.

Frank Bremer is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV(Antitrust Law Association), the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), theSwiss Bar Association (SAV), the Munich Bar Association and theresearch counsel at the Competence Center for European andInternational Law, CC EIL-HSG.

Frank BremerSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Franco Castelli joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s AntitrustDepartment in 2005. He focuses on analysis of competition issues inUS and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Mr.Castelli has represented clients before the Federal Trade Commission,the US Department of Justice, the European Commission, as well asother antitrust regulatory agencies. He has worked on transactionsinvolving a wide variety of industries, most recently representingcompanies in the high-tech, stock exchange, pharmaceutical, oil andgas and chemical industries. Mr. Castelli has served as a guest lectureron antitrust law at the Law School of the University of Milan, Italy.

Among other matters, Mr Castelli represented Expedia in its acquisitionof Orbitz, which was named by Global Competition Review as MergerControl Matter of 2015 in the Americas, and in its acquisition ofHomeAway; Actelion in its sale to Johnson & Johnson; Analog Devicesin its acquisition of Linear Technology Corporation; Cox Automotive inits acquisition of Dealertrack Technologies; Nasdaq in its acquisition ofthe International Securities Exchange; NYSE Euronext in its sale toInterContinental Exchange, its later-abandoned merger with DeutscheBörse, and its acquisition of the American Stock Exchange; BGCPartners in its acquisition of GFI Group, its sale of Trayport toInterContinental Exchange, and its sale of eSpeed to Nasdaq; Covidienin its sale to Medtronic; Mallinckrodt in its acquisitions of Therakos,Ikaria, Questcor Pharmaceuticals and Cadence Pharmaceuticals; ElPaso in its sale to Kinder Morgan; Copano Energy in its sale to KinderMorgan; Rohm and Haas in its sale to Dow Chemical; XPO Logistics inits acquisitions of Norbert Dentressangle S.A. and Conway; ChicagoBridge & Iron in its acquisition of Shaw Group; URS in its merger withAECOM Technology; and AMB Property Corporation in its mergerwith ProLogis.

Mr Castelli received a J.D. from the University of Milan in 2001 and anLL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2005, where he was a HarlanFiske Stone Scholar. Mr Castelli was selected as a “Future Leader” byWho’s Who Legal: Competition in 2017 and has been listed as a RisingStar in the 2015 and 2016 New York – Metro edition of Super Lawyers.

Mr Castelli is a member of the American Bar Association and the BarAssociation of the City of New York.

Franco CastelliWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1355Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com



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A RG EN T I N ACamila CorvalánBeccar VarelaBuenos Aires

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AU S T R I AMichael MayerCerha HempelVienna

Kajetan Rozgabpv HÜGELVienna

Anna Wolf-PoschCerha HempelVienna

B E L G I UMDiana CalciuGide Loyrette NouelBrussels

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Neil HoolihanLinklatersBrussels

Paul JohnsonBaker McKenzieBrussels

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Carlos Martínez RicoBaker McKenzieBrussels

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B R A Z I LFlávia Chiquito dos SantosManeso Ramires Perez AzevedoMarquesSão Paulo

Daniel Costa RebelloPinheiro Neto AdvogadosBrasilia

Camilla PaolettiBMA - Barbosa Müssnich AragãoSão Paulo

B U L G A R I AHristina Dzhevlekova See bioWolf TheissSofia

C ANADAMichael CaldecottMcCarthy TétraultToronto

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Jussi NieminenCastrén & SnellmanHelsinki

Sari RasinkangasRoschierHelsinki

F R AN C EClémence Macé de GastinesEversheds SutherlandParis


COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST EXPERT LISTINGS

Thomas ElkinsLinklatersParis

Joséphine FourquetPaul HastingsParis

Fayrouze Masmi-DaziFrieh et AssociésParis

G E RMAN YKatharina ApelCleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonCologne

Christoph ArholdWhite & CaseBerlin/Brussels

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Sebastian HackOsborne ClarkeCologne

Julius HasseBlomsteinBerlin

Tilman KuhnWhite & CaseDüsseldorf/Brussels

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Christian RitzHogan LovellsMunich

Christoff Henrik SoltauCMS Hasche SigleHamburg

Elena WieseHogan LovellsDüsseldorf

Daniel J ZimmerHengeler MuellerDüsseldorf

HONG KONGS A RAdelaide LukeHerbert Smith FreehillsHong Kong

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I N D I AAditi GopalakrishnanAZB & PartnersNew Delhi

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Rahul RaiAZB & PartnersMumbai

Rudresh SinghL&L PartnersNew Delhi

Yaman VermaShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & CoNew Delhi

I TA L YErmelinda SpinelliFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerMilan

J A PANTsuyoshi IkedaIkeda & SomeyaTokyo

L AT V I AIeva AndersoneSorainenRiga

Ivo MaskalansCOBALTRiga

M E X I C OJorge Kargl PavíaCreel García-Cuéllar Aiza y EnríquezMexico City

Wilbert Luna ArellanesWhite & CaseMexico City

N E T H E R L AN D SBart de RijkeDe Brauw Blackstone WestbroekAmsterdam/Brussels

Marc WiggersLoyens & LoeffAmsterdam

P O L AN DAnna GulinskaDentonsWarsaw

Radoslaw PawlukGreenberg Traurig GrzesiakWarsaw

ROMAN I ARoxana IonescuRTPR Allen & OveryBucharest

S L O VA KR E P U B L I CJuraj GyarfasDentonsBratislava

S O U T H A F R I C ANeil MacKenzieFasken Martineau DuMoulinJohannesburg

Lerisha NaiduBaker McKenzieJohannesburg


EXPERT LISTINGS COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST

Samantha SindenWerksmansJohannesburg

S O U T H K O R E AIn Seon ChoiKim & ChangSeoul

Suruyn KimLee & KoSeoul

Hemi LeeKim & ChangSeoul

S PA I NJoaquín HervadaDLA PiperMadrid

SW E D E NEmil Fahlén-GodöBokwall RislundStockholm

Karin RobertsDelphiStockholm

SW I T Z E R L A N DFrank Bremer See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Andreas BurgerHomburgerZürich

Michael TschudinWenger & VieliZürich

T U R K E YSera Erzene YildizACTECONIstanbul

UN I T E DK I N G DOMGabriela R Da CostaK&L GatesLondon

Sam HareSquire Patton BoggsLondon

David LittleLatham & WatkinsLondon

Tatiana SiakkaSquire Patton BoggsLondon/Brussels

Jennifer StoreyClifford ChanceLondon

Lena VanmaliFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

Ricky VersteegFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

Thomas S WilsonKirkland & EllisLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SLauren BattagliaHogan LovellsWashington DC

Franco Castelli See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

Lisa DanzingCleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonWashington DC

Rani A HabashDechertWashington DC

Douglas LitvackDavis Wright TremaineWashington DC

Kate Mitchell-TombrasCovington & BurlingWashington DC

Stacy PepperKirkland & EllisChicago

Jan RybnicekFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerWashington DC

Joshua ShapiroAllen & OveryNew York

Tara Lynn TaverniaLatham & WatkinsWashington DC

Christopher WilsonBaker BottsWashington DC



CON S T R U C T I ON


EXPERT LISTINGS CONSTRUCTION

AU S T R A L I APaul BrickleyCorrs Chambers WestgarthMelbourne

Sinead BrickleyMolinoCahill LawyersMelbourne

Stella GuettingerCorrs Chambers WestgarthMelbourne

Tom HeadingPinsent MasonsMelbourne

Krista PayneAshurstSydney

George VarmaPinsent MasonsPerth

AU S T R I AConstantin BenesSchönherrVienna

F I N L AN DMika KarppinenFrontia AttorneysHelsinki

F R AN C EFlorian QuintardPinsent MasonsParis

G E RMAN YAlyson EatherDLA PiperPerth

HONG KONGS A RAlvin HoPinsent MasonsHong Kong

Joyce LeungHogan LovellsHong Kong

N E T H E R L AN D SSander van den BoogaartHouthoffRotterdam

P O L AN DMichal BorkCMS Cameron McKenna NabarroOlswangWarsaw

S I N G A PO R EThea RamanRajah & TannSingapore

S O U T H K O R E AAra ChoPeter & KimSeoul

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SPeter AnagnostouDLA PiperDubai

Anna GeeBryan Cave Leighton PaisnerAbu Dhabi

Dean RyburnDentonsDubai

Elliott SawfordAllen & OveryDubai

UN I T E DK I N G DOMEdward ColcloughFenwick ElliottLondon

Zoe de Courcy ArbiserPinsent MasonsLondon

Rebecca Drake39 Essex ChambersLondon

Nicola J EllisK&L GatesLondon

Raeesa RawalDebevoise & PlimptonLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E STray BatcherCotney Construction LawTampa

Erin LukeThompson HineCleveland

Antoine K F SmileyReed SmithHouston/London



CO R PO R AT E /M&A / P R I VAT E E Q U I T Y


ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY

William Fong is a partner in White & Case’s Global M&A and PrivateEquity practice, based in Hong Kong.

William has over 10 years of experience advising private equitysponsors and their portfolio companies as well as public and privatecompanies on domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures.

William is qualified in Hong Kong. He has a Postgraduate Certificateof Laws from the University of Hong Kong and received his Bachelorof Laws from the University of Warwick.

Recent matters include representation of:

• EQT Partners AB and its portfolio company GPA Global, a leader inpremium packaging, sustainable packaging and display solutionsbased in China, on GPA Global’s bolt-on acquisition of HubFolding Box, a printing and packaging company in the US, for anundisclosed amount.

• Icon Group, a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs PrincipalInvestment Area, in its acquisition of Hong Kong-based oncologyclinic SunTech Medical Group.

• CAA China, a joint venture between CMC Capital and CreativeArtists Agency, on its acquisition of leading Chinese sports agencyMomentum Sports.

• China Media Capital in its investment in Dingdong Maicai, anonline fresh fruit and vegetables ordering platform; its going privateacquisition of Charm Communications Inc., a NASDAQ-listedadvertising agency group in China that offers integrated advertisingservices with particular focus on television and the internet; and theacquisition of the equity interest held by Universal Studio inOriental DreamWorks, resulting in a consortium led by CMCCapital becoming the sole shareholder of the company.

• Goldman Sachs in multiple investments, notably its investment inLvYue Group, an internet travel service provider; and Klook*, Asia’slargest in-destination travel services booking platform.

• Keep, a mobile fitness platform in the PRC*.

*Experience prior to joining White & Case

William FongWhite & Case9th Floor Central Tower28 Queen’s Road CentralHong Kong SARTel: (852) 2822 8758Email: [email protected]: www.whitecase.com

HONG KONG S A R

Marcel Jakob is a Senior Associate in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Mergers& Acquisitions Group in Zurich. He focuses on private domestic andcross-border M&A transactions, including asset deals and real estatetransactions. Marcel’s expertise encompasses transactions involvingprivate equity, highly regulated businesses, such as financialinstitutions and life science companies, as well as technology andintellectual property driven business models.

Marcel regularly acts as counsel in financing rounds and exits byventure-capital-backed companies, representing both investors andentrepreneurs, and assists businesses in structuring employee incentiveschemes. In addition, as a member of a specialized Swiss-wide workinggroup, he contributes to the further development of the Swiss modeldocumentation for venture capital investments.

Marcel holds a Master of Arts in Law from the University of St Gallen(HSG) and graduated in 2017 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) fromUniversity of Chicago Law School.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer, Marcel Jakob gained experiencein another business law firm, at a district court, in the tax departmentof an international advisory firm, in a startup company as well as in thelegal department of a securities dealer in Zurich.

Marcel JakobSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19PO Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Mona Stephenson specialises in M&A, financing transactions andcorporate law. With over 10 years of experience, she regularly advisesSwiss and international companies, from multinational companies toSMEs and start-ups, on various corporate matters, including M&A,private equity, venture capital, debt financing, corporate governanceand commercial contracts. Her experience spans a wide range ofindustries such as healthcare, banking and luxury goods.

Before joining Meyerlustenberger Lachenal as a Partner, MonaStephenson worked in other leading Swiss law firms. She holds anLL.M. from the New York University and the National University ofSingapore in Global Business Law and Corporate and FinancialServices. Before passing the bar exam in Geneva, she studied at theUniversities of Lausanne, Zurich and Fribourg.

Mona Stephenson is fluent in French and English and is member ofseveral professional associations. She is also the cofounder of theWomen’s Business Society association and member of the committeeon gender equality of the Geneva Bar Association. She regularly speaksat conferences and writes articles on various topics related to corporatelaw.

Meyerlustenberger Lachenal is one of Switzerland’s leading businesslaw firms with over 100 lawyers. With offices in Zurich, Geneva, Zug,and Lausanne, Meyerlustenberger Lachenal advises domestic andinternational clients in all areas of business law. The Corporate andM&A practice team of Meyerlustenberger Lachenal comprises 10partners and 15 associates, specialising in national and cross-borderM&A and private equity transactions as well as projects related tocorporate and commercial law.

Mona StephensonMeyerlustenberger Lachenal Avocats –Attorneys at Law65 rue du Rhône1211 Genève 3SwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 737 10 00Email: [email protected]: www.mll-legal.com


Martyn Jones advises UK and overseas clients in the pharmaceuticalsand healthcare sector on a range of transactions, including cross-border and domestic M&A, joint-ventures and commercialagreements. He has advised on transactions involving companies at allstages of development, from seed financing and other early-stageinvestments to acting on acquisitions and disposals of majorpharmaceuticals companies.

An English law qualified lawyer, Martyn also has experience in publicM&A, including class 1 transactions and return of capital toshareholders. Clients turn to him frequently for his industry-specificexpertise in negotiating key documentation, leading due diligenceexercises, and advising on high value transactions.

Martyn spent four years in the firm’s Moscow office, providing Englishlaw advice in relation to international and Russian transactions,including drafting and negotiating key transaction documents andadvising on major projects including joint ventures involving foreigndirect investment into Russia.

Martyn was educated at BPP University Law School and CambridgeUniversity.

Martyn JonesHerbert Smith FreehillsExchange HousePrimrose StreetLondon EC2A 2EGUKTel: (44) 20 7466 2458Email: [email protected]: www.herbertsmithfreehills.com

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Jessie Baxter is counsel in White & Case’s Global M&A practice group.Jessie focuses on the representation of corporate clients, private equityfirms and their portfolio companies, in connection with domestic andglobal mergers, acquisitions and equity investments in a broad rangeof industries. She also provides general corporate and corporategovernance advice.

Jessie’s practice focuses on White & Case’s Portfolio Company offeringin New York, which provides ongoing support to financial sponsorsand their portfolio companies on all aspects of their capital structuresand other strategic matters.

Jessie received her BS from Boston College; and JD from the Universityof San Diego.

Recent matters include the representation of:

• Investcorp Inc. in its acquisition of Multivision, LLC, an ITsolutions and training provider.

• Harvest Partners in its acquisition of Material Handling Services,the largest US provider of brand-independent fleet managementand asset management services to retail, manufacturing,distribution, healthcare and hospitality companies.

• Anthem, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies,in its recently terminated US$54.2 billion agreement to acquireCigna Corporation, a combination that garnered front-pagecoverage for over 2 years and involved extensive coordination of aWhite & Case team of cross-practice lawyers in M&A, antitrust,litigation and bank finance.

• Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE: RBC), a leading globalmanufacturer of electric motors, mechanical and electrical motioncontrols and power generation products, in its US$1.44 billionacquisition of the Power Transmissions Solutions business ofEmerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR).

• Hess Corporation in the US$850 million disposition of its US EastCoast and St. Lucia terminal network to Buckeye Partners; and inthe sale of its business of providing fuel oil and gasoline tocommercial and industrial end users to Sprague OperatingResources LLC.

• Hovensa L.L.C., a US Virgin Islands company and a joint ventureformed by Hess Corp. and Petróleos de Venezuela, in the sale ofsubstantially all of its petroleum terminalling assets pursuant toSections 363 and 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, to a subsidiary ofArcLight Capital Partners, LLC.

Jessie I BaxterWhite & Case LLP1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020USTel: (1) 212 819 8381Email: [email protected] Website: www.whitecase.com


Adam Cieply is a partner in White & Case’s Mergers & Acquisitions Globalpractice. Adam represents domestic and international private equity fundsand corporate clients in private and public domestic, cross-border andglobal mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and privateinvestments in a broad range of industries. Adam also has broadexperience advising debtors and creditors of distressed companies throughcorporate restructurings, equity raises and distressed M&A transactions,whether in-court or out-of-court.

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Cieply practiced corporate law,focusing on public and private mergers and acquisitions and securities law,at a major Canadian law firm, working in both their Montreal, Canada andLondon, UK offices.

Mr Cieply was recently selected by The M&A Advisor as a winner of its“Emerging Leaders Award”.

He received his BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law) and his LLB (Bachelor ofCommon Law) from McGill University.


• Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) a Fortune 500 energy services holdingcompany, in:

• its US$3.59 billion sale of Peruvian businesses including its 83.6percent stake in Luz Del Sur to China Yangtze Power International(Hongkong) Co., Limited. The transaction was named “M&A Deal ofthe Year” by China Business Law Journal in 2020.

• its US$9.45 billion all-cash acquisition of Energy Future HoldingsCorp., which indirectly owns 80% of Oncor Electric DeliveryCompany, LLC. The transaction, which created the largest utilityholding company in the US, valued Oncor at US$18.8 billion. Thistransaction was named “M&A Deal of the Year” by The Deal in 2018.

• Its US$1.275 billion acquisition by Oncor Electric Delivery CompanyLLC of InfraREIT, Inc. (NYSE: HIFR) and the concurrent acquisition by(i) Sempra of a 50-percent interest in Sharyland Utilities, LP forapproximately US$98 million and (ii) Oncor, through subsidiaries ofInfraREIT, of certain North and West Texas assets of Sharyland. SempraEnergy owns an approximate 80-percent ownership stake in Oncor.

• Brookfield Asset Management in (i) its 50% partnership with DigitalRealty Trust in the US$1.8 billion acquisition of Ascenty, a leading datacenter provider in Brazil, and (ii) its C$4.3 billion acquisition ofEnercare Inc., one of North America’s largest home and commercialservices companies.

• Luxoft Holding, Inc. (NYSE: LXFT), a global technology services andconsulting company based in the British Virgin Islands, in its US$2billion sale to DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leadingindependent, end-to-end IT services company.

An ad hoc group of creditors, including Elliott Management Corporation,in their participation in $325 million of new equity capital in the Chapter11 reorganization and recapitalization of Acosta, Inc., a full-service salesand marketing agency,and elimination of all of Acosta, Inc.’sapproximately $3 billion of long-term debt.

Adam CieplyWhite & Case LLP 1221 Avenue of the Americas,New York, NY 10020-1095USTel: (1) 212 819 8514 Emsail: [email protected]: www.whitecase.com




Morgan is a Counsel in White & Case’s Mergers & Acquisitions Groupand is resident in the Houston, Texas office. Her practice consists of awide range of both domestic and international corporate andtransactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, privateequity investments, MLP dropdowns, joint ventures and companyformations. She also advises clients on corporate governance mattersand deal structures relating to acquisitions, divestitures and exitstrategies. Morgan has experience representing both public and privatecompanies, as well as conflicts committees, in a variety of industries,including oil and gas and other natural resources, solar energy,entertainment and financial services.

Morgan also has recently been recognized with the “Emerging LeadersAward” by The M&A Advisor. Morgan earned her BS in Economicsfrom the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, graduating cumlaude, and her JD from Harvard Law School.

Her recent representative matters include the representation of:

• Independent Directors of Mobile Mini, Inc. (NASDAQ: MINI), thelargest US provider of portable storage solutions, on its announcedmerger of equals with WillScot Corp. (NASDAQ: WSC), the largestUS supplier of mobile office trailers. The combination will result ina combined enterprise value of US$6.6 billion;

• Invenergy in connection with a partnership for the ownership of afloating storage and regasification unit to be used in Invenergy’sand its project subsidiary’s, Energia del Pacifico, 378 MW liquefiednatural gas (LNG)-to-power infrastructure project at the Port ofAcajutla in the Department of Sonsonate in El Salvador. The projectwill require an investment of approximately US$1 billion and willbe the largest foreign direct investment in El Salvador to date;

• IFM Investors in its US$10.3 billion acquisition of BuckeyePartners, L.P.;

• Motiva Enterprises in connection with its acquisition of Flint HillsResources’ chemical plant in Port Arthur, Texas;

• Milestone Environmental Services, LLC, an oilfield environmentalservices provider, in an exchange of real property and producedwater disposal assets with High Roller Group;

• Cobepa S.A., a Belguim-based privately-held investment company,in connection with its acquisition of BioAgilytix Labs, LLC, aleading provider of large molecule bioanalytical testing services;

• Ara Partners Group, an alternative asset manager, in its majorityinvestment in Centric Gas Services, LLC, a local gas distributionplatform headquartered in Magnolia, Texas; and

• Delek Group in its acquisition of a 22.45% working interest in theCaesar Tonga field in the Gulf of Mexico from Shell for US$965million, and a long-term purchase agreement with Shell Trading(US) Company for the produced oil.

Morgan HollinsWhite & Case LLP609 Main Street, Suite 2900Houston, Texas 77002USTel: (1) 713 496 9722Email: [email protected] Website: www.whitecase.com


Emily D Johnson is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’sRestructuring and Finance Department. She represents borrowers andissuers in all financing aspects of complex corporate transactions,including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs. Herexperience includes both the investment grade and leveraged markets,as well as bank

financings and capital markets transactions. Emily also advises buyers,sellers, investors and creditors in distressed acquisitions, divestituresand restructurings.

Emily received a B.A. with highest distinction from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar anda member of Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her J.D. magna cum laudeat Duke University School of Law, where she was an Allen G. SiegelScholar and a member of the Order of the Coif. At Duke, she wasawarded the Faculty Prize in Business Organizations and Finance andserved as an articles editor for the Duke Law Journal.

Emily actively participates in the community and has a vibrant probono practice. She represents clients in family law and domesticviolence-related immigration matters in partnership with Her Justice,an organization that provides free legal services to low-income womenin New York City. She also serves as pro bono counsel for thePartnership Fund for New York City as it invests in for-profit and non-profit ventures that create jobs in underserved and diversecommunities. Emily is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School andregularly guest lectures at Duke University School of Law. She is aDavid Rockefeller Fellow for the Partnership for New York City.

Emily is admitted to practice in the State of New York and theSouthern District of New York. She was named a New York Law Journal2019 Rising Star and also has been named a “Rising Star” in the NewYork metropolitan area by Super Lawyers each year from 2013 to 2019.

Emily D JohnsonWachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York, NY 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1308Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com




Jake Kling is a partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate Department.Jake’s practice primarily focuses on mergers, acquisitions anddispositions, securities law matters, and advising companies andboards of directors on takeover defense, shareholder activism andgeneral corporate governance matters. He has advised a broad range ofpublic and private clients across multiple industries, includingbanking, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical, lifesciences, technology, media and telecom, industrial, retail, privateequity and real estate. In 2019, Jake was named a “Rising Star” by TheDeal, which recognized him as one of the 21 most promising newM&A partners.

Jake received an A.B. magna cum laude in mathematical economicsfrom Brown University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa andgraduated with the highest attainable GPA, and a J.D. from Yale LawSchool, where he served as Projects Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Hehas authored multiple publications (including in the Yale Law Journaland the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance) on topicsrelating to mergers and acquisitions and corporate law, 363 sales, andantitrust. Jake also served as a law clerk to the Honorable DennisJacobs, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for theSecond Circuit.

Jacob A KlingWachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York, NY 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1003Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com


Luke Laumann is a partner in White & Case’s Global M&A practice.Luke represents domestic and international buyers and sellers inprivate and public domestic and cross-border mergers andacquisitions, joint ventures and private investments in a broad range ofindustries.

Luke has previously been recognized as a Rising Star in Euromoney’sExpert Guide for Private Equity. He was also named to The M&AAdvisor’s list of “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders” for M&A.

Luke received his BA from American University of Paris, summa cumlaude; and JD from University of Virginia School of Law.


• IFM Investors, in (i) its US$10.3 billion take private of BuckeyePartners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL); and (ii) the acquisition by IFM GlobalInfrastructure Fund, Vitol Group, and Vitol Investment PartnershipII Ltd of Buckeye Partners LP’s 50% equity interest in VTTI BV inconsideration of cash proceeds of US$975 million.

• Fortis Inc. (TSX: FTS), in (i) its US$11.3 billion acquisition of ITCHoldings Corp. (NYSE: ITC) and its related $1.2 billion partnershipwith GIC, a transaction which was named “Canada: M&A Deal ofthe Year” by AmLaw; (ii) its sale of ten hydroelectric facilities toEnergy Ottawa; (iii) its US$4.3 billion acquisition of UNS EnergyCorporation (NYSE:UNS); and (iv) its US$1.5 billion acquisition ofCH Energy Group Inc. (NYSE: CHG), a transaction which wasnamed “Energy Deal of the Year” by The M&A Advisor.

• Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in numerous transactions,including: (i) the pending US$2.9 billion acquisition of CincinnatiBell (NYSE: CBB), (ii) the sale of Waste Industries, (iii) itsinvestment in Aligned Energy Holdings, L.P., and (iv) its acquisitionof BlueBird Network.

• Global Infrastructure Partners in its US$1.825 billion acquisition ofMedallion Gathering & Processing, LLC.

• Quad-C Management, Inc. and its portfolio companies innumerous transactions, including: (i) the acquisitions of BoulderScientific Company, AIT Worldwide, Pharm-Olam International,Rainbow Early Education, Inmark Packaging, VMG Health, WolfHoldings Organization, Inc., C.S.U. Operations, McKissock, L.P.,and Engineered Fastener Company; (ii) its merger-of-equals withWoundCo Holdings, Inc.; and (iii) its sale of Generation Brands,Rainbow Early Education and its interest in Asset Acceptance(NASDAQ: AACC).

Luke E LaumannWhite & Case LLP1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020USTel: (1) 212 819 8451Email: [email protected] Website: www.whitecase.com




Raaj S Narayan is a Partner at Wachtell Lipton in the CorporateDepartment. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital marketstransactions, takeover and shareholder activism defense and corporategovernance matters. He represents public and private companies andprivate equity funds on a wide range of domestic and cross-bordermergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs, investments, jointventures, initial public offerings and other securities offerings. Basedin Silicon Valley, he represents companies and investors acrossindustries, with a substantial portion of his practice involvingtechnology, fintech and financial services companies. Mr Narayan wasnamed a Rising Star by Law360 for 2019.

Mr Narayan received a B.A. cum laude from Yale University and a J.D.from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford LawReview and the Stanford Law & Policy Review.

He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the StateBar of California.

Raaj S NarayanWachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York, NY 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1349Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com


Frank Lupinacci is a partner in White & Case’s Global M&A practice.Frank’s practice focuses on the representation of domestic and non-USprivate equity funds and corporate clients in connection with domesticand global acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, dispositions, and equityinvestments in a broad range of industries, in both competitiveprocesses and bilateral negotiations. He also provides generalcorporate and governance advice.

Frank has previously been recognized as a Rising Star in Euromoney’sExpert Guide for M&A and Private Equity. He was also named to TheM&A Advisor’s list of “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders” for M&A.

Frank received his BS from Rutgers University, cum laude; and JD fromSeton Hall University School of Law, magna cum laude.


• Saudi Aramco in its US$69.1 billion acquisition of a 70% stake inSaudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) from the PublicInvestment Fund (PIF).

• Roark Capital Group and its portfolio company Arby’s RestaurantGroup, in Arby’s US$2.9 billion acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings,Inc. (NASD: BWLD); and Roark Capital Group and Inspire Brands,Inc., in Inspire Brands’ US$2.3 billion acquisition of Sonic. Corp.(NASD:SONC), a drive-in fast food restaurant chain based inOklahoma.

• HgCapital, the specialist private equity investor focused on softwareand service businesses, in its investment in Intelerad MedicalSystems, a leading global provider of medical imaging software andenterprise workflow solutions.

• Investindustrial, a leading European private equity firm, in theacquisition of Jacuzzi® brands, from investment funds affiliatedwith each of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Ares ManagementCorporation, and Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.

• Pernod Ricard SA, the world’s second-largest distiller, in itsacquisition of Rabbit Hole Spirits, LLC, a US premium bourbonbrand; and in its acquisition of Firestone & Robertson Distilling,owner of the TX brand, a leading private equity backed whiskeybrand headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

• Avon Rubber p.l.c. (LON: AVON), an innovative technology group,specializing in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear andrespiratory protection systems, on its strategic acquisition of 3M’sballistic-protection business in the US and the rights to theCeradyne brand.

Frank LupinacciWhite & Case LLP1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020USTel: (1) 212 819 8984Email: [email protected] Website: www.whitecase.com




John L Robinson is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Hefocuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance andgeneral corporate and securities matters. John’s practice has included awide range of matters, including cross-border and domesticacquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, carve-outs and privateequity transactions. He also advises companies on takeover defenseand in responding to shareholder activism and proxy contests.

John received his A.B. in economics summa cum laude fromDartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar. He receivedhis J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was asenior editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of the StanfordJournal of Law, Business and Finance.

Prior to law school, John worked as an associate consultant at thebusiness strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting LLP, in its Bostonand Paris offices.

John L RobinsonWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1056Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com


Suni Sreepada is an associate in White & Case’s Global Mergers &Acquisitions practice. Suni focuses on the representation of corporateclients and private equity funds in connection with domestic and globalmergers, acquisitions and equity investments in a broad range ofindustries. She also provides general corporate and corporate governanceadvice.

Suni received her BA from Drew University and her JD from FordhamUniversity School of Law.


• Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) in its US$17 billion sale to EnergyCapital Partners and a consortium of investors.

• IFM Investors in its US$10.3 billion acquisition of Buckeye Partners,L.P. (NYSE: BPL).

• A consortium composed of Brookfield Infrastructure and itsinstitutional partners and GIC on the US$8.4 billion acquisition ofGenesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE:GWR).

• LifePoint Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) in its US$5.6 billion mergerwith RCCH HealthCare Partners, which is owned by certain fundsmanaged by Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO).

• Roark Capital Group and its portfolio company Arby's RestaurantGroup, in Arby's US$2.9 billion acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc.(NASDAQ: BWLD).

• Roark Capital Group and Inspire Brands, Inc. in Inspire Brands'US$2.3 billion acquisition of Sonic Corp. (NASDAQ: SONC).

• Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) in the US$1.275 billion acquisition byOncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy,of InfraREIT, Inc.

• EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) in the tax-free spin-off andsubsequent merger of its broadcast satellite service business, includingnine satellites and certain real estate owned by EchoStar, with asubsidiary of DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH).

• Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNTH) in its US$500 millionacquisition of Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNC).

• American Industrial Partners in the acquisition of Rand Logistics, Inc.(NASDAQ:RLOG).

• Enzymotec Ltd. (NASDAQ: ENZY) in its US$290 million sale toFrutarom Ltd., a flavors and specialty fine ingredients company.

• Avast Software in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of AVG Technologies.• NeuroDerm Ltd. (NASDAQ: NDRM) in its US$1.1 billion sale toMitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation.

• Zimmer Biomet (NYSE and SIX: ZBH) in its US$1.1 billion acquisitionof LDR Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: LDRH).

• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Inc. in its US$619 million acquisition ofSeven Seas Water Corporation, AquaVenture Holdings Inc. andAquaVenture Holdings Curacao N.V. from AI Aqua (Luxembourg)S.a.r.l, a company owned by Advent International Corporation.

Suni SreepadaWhite & Case LLP1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020-1095USTel: (1) 212 819 8261Email: [email protected]: www.whitecase.com



CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY EXPERT LISTINGS

ANGO L AJoão Bravo da CostgaBCSA AdvogadosLuanda

A RG EN T I N AExequiel H BuenaventuraBruchou Fernández Madero & LombardiBuenos Aires

AU S T R A L I AChristopher BlaneAllensSydney

Timothy StuttHerbert Smith FreehillsSydney

B R A Z I LSilvia Castro Cunha ZonoTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

Marcelo FrazãoTauil & Checker AdvogadosRio de Janeiro

Maria Medeiros BofillTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

Fernando Silveira CarvalhoTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

B U L G A R I AValentin BojilovDjingov Gouginski Kyutchukov &VelichkovSofia

Alexander StefanovPenkov Markov & PartnersSofia

C ANADAMichael HickeyBlake Cassels & GraydonToronto

D E NMA R KMartin Allan ChristensenBech-BruunCopenhagen

E G Y P TOmar SherifShalakany Law OfficeCairo

F I N L AN DBenjamin BadeCastrén & SnellmanHelsinki

Ilkka OsanenItäinen & Ojantakanen AttorneysHelsinki

F R AN C EAnne-Caroline PayelleAllen & OveryParis

G E RMAN YMichael AlbrechtSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomMunich

Tobias KahnertHogan LovellsMunich

Dominik MoserMorrison & FoersterBerlin

Alexander Stefan RiegerHogan LovellsFrankfurt am Main

Florian SippelFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerMunich

HONG KONGS A RWilliam Fong See bioWhite & CaseHong Kong

Maureen HoMorrison & FoersterHong Kong

Danny LiFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerHong Kong

Catherine LiuMorrison & FoersterHong Kong

HUNGA RYAndrás PeischDentonsBudapest

I S L E O F M ANGarry ManleyApplebyDouglas

L U X EM BOU RGAlexander KochHogan LovellsLuxembourg

N E T H E R L AN D SBram CaudriHouthoffRotterdam

NO RWAYEspen FuruholtSANDSOslo

P E R UUldarico Ossio Estudio EchecoparLima


EXPERT LISTINGS CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY

Héctor ZegarraGarriguesLima

P O L AN DSlawomir CzerwinskiClifford ChanceWarsaw

P O R T UGA LRaquel AzevedoPLMJLisbon

QATA RZeina Al NabihAl Tamimi & CoDoha

ROMAN I ACiprian TimofteTuca Zbârcea & Asocia iiBucharest

R U S S I AOlga PonomarenkoLatham & WatkinsMoscow

Anthony WalkerFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerMoscow

S E R B I AVojimir KurticMoravcevic Vojnovic and PartnersBelgrade

S I N G A PO R EMark NamAllen & OverySingapore

SW I T Z E R L A N DAlexander BlaeserBaker McKenzieZürich

Andrea GigerNiederer Kraft FreyZürich

Andreas HinsenLoyens & LoeffZürich

Marcel Jakob See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Andreas MüllerHomburgerZürich

Deirdre Ní AnnracháinNiederer Kraft FreyZürich

Daniel RaunBär & KarrerZürich

Stefan ScherrerBianchiSchwaldZürich

Philippe SeilerBär & KarrerZürich

Mona Stephenson See bioMeyerlustenberger LachenalGeneva

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SGareth DrayClifford ChanceDubai

Jack HardmanClifford ChanceDubai

UN I T E DK I N G DOMTom BartramKirkland & EllisLondon

Katja ButlerSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomLondon

Aprajita DhundiaKirkland & EllisLondon

Martyn Jones See bioHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

Adam RuncornSidley AustinLondon

Gareth SykesHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

Michelle TongSidley AustinLondon

Christopher WinnDentonsLondon

Tamara YoungFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SJessie I Baxter See bioWhite & CaseNew York

Adam Cieply See bioWhite & CaseNew York

Matthew A GreenbergVinson & ElkinsHouston

Uri HerzbergDebevoise & PlimptonNew York

Morgan Hollins See bioWhite & CaseHouston


CORPORATE/M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY EXPERT LISTINGS

Nicholas Jay HouptAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldDallas

Emily D Johnson See bioWachtel Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

Jacob A Kling See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

Luke E Laumann See bioWhite & CaseNew York

Frank Lupinacci See bioWhite & CaseNew York

Raaj S Narayan See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

John L Robinson See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

Brittany A SakowitzVinson & ElkinsHouston

Suni Sreepada See bioWhite & CaseNew York

V E N E Z U E L ADiego LepervancheMendoza Palacios Acedo Borjas PáezPumar & CíaCaracas



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ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES EXPERT LISTINGS

AU S T R A L I AJackson AllenAllen & OveryPerth

Sinead BrickleyMolinoCahill LawyersMelbourne

Joanne SteerDLA PiperPerth

George VarmaPinsent MasonsPerth

B R A Z I LFilipe Morais CunhaPinheiro Neto AdvogadosBelo Horizonte

C ANADAPeter DannerTorysCalgary

C H I L EAlejandro EspejoPhilippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU &UríaSantiago

Esteban FresnoCareySantiago

C H I N AZhaohui LiDechertBeijing

G E RMAN YJörg MeinzenbachHengeler MuellerDüsseldorf

Daniel J ZimmerHengeler MuellerDüsseldorf

HONG KONGS A RNicholas A MolanDechertHong Kong

I TA L YValentina CanaliniGatti Pavesi BianchiMilan

Francesca MorraHerbert Smith FreehillsMilan

M E X I C OCarlos Maass-PorrasBaker McKenzieJuárez

P O R T UGA LRúben BrigolasPLMJLisbon

R U S S I AAlexandra RotarMorgan Lewis & BockiusMoscow

S PA I NDavid AntónHogan LovellsMadrid

T U R K E YCeren SuBASEAKIstanbul

U K R A I N EMaksym SysoievDentonsKyiv

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SKimberly Kapesi-MillerAllen & OveryAbu Dhabi

UN I T E DK I N G DOMNadine AmrVinson & ElkinsLondon

Nicholas AntonasAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldLondon

Emily BarlassVinson & ElkinsLondon

Rob ButlerBaker BottsLondon

Quentin RobinsonAshurstLondon

Matthew StottOrrick Herrington & SutcliffeLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SAlan J AlexanderVinson & ElkinsHouston

Stephen M Boone JrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldHouston

Stephanie H CocoVinson & ElkinsHouston

Louise GibbonsOrrick Herrington & SutcliffeSan Francisco

Danny HatchWhite & CaseHouston


EXPERT LISTINGS ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Lindsey M JaquillardKirkland & EllisHouston

Danielle Mangrum PattersonVinson & ElkinsHouston

Emilie J McNallyMcGuireWoodsRichmond

Sam PorterNorton Rose FulbrightAustin/New York

Clark WohlferdWhite & CaseNew York



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EXPERT LISTINGS ENVIRONMENT

F I N L AN DIikka VäänänenCastrén & SnellmanHelsinki

S PA I NJesús Andrés SedanoUría MenéndezMadrid

UN I T E DK I N G DOMAdam HedleyReed SmithLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SMatthew DobbinsVinson & ElkinsHouston

Joel D EagleThompson HineCleveland

Jillian C KirnGreenberg TraurigPhiladelphia

Margaret E PelosoVinson & ElkinsWashington DC/New York



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ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE

Nicolas Bouckaert is a Partner at Kennedys, whose Paris office he co-founded in October 2017. He is qualified as a French Avocat à la Courand a Solicitor in England & Wales, having studied in England(University of Oxford and University of York) and trained at a MagicCircle firm in the City, before relocating to Paris and joining one ofFrance’s leading (re)insurance practices, at litigation boutique firmBOPS.

Nicolas is regularly instructed in complex and international disputes,both before French Courts and arbitration tribunals, where he acts forleading (re)insurers, manufacturers and service providers. Hispractice, which has a particular focus on product and professionalliability, includes the entire range of (re)insurance disputes (i.e.coverage, defence and subrogation), as well as general commercialdisputes and court-appointed technical investigations (specificallythose relating to industrial risks). It spans several key industry sectors,such as real estate, construction, manufacturing, finance and aviation(Nicolas leads the aviation product liability practice of Kennedys’ Parisoffice). Nicolas is also very active in (re)insurance matters relating topolitical risks and trade credit insurance.

Nicolas is recommended for insurance and aviation by leading legaldirectories (Legal 500, Chambers…) and has been identified as a“Rising Star” for insurance in France by Expert Guides in 2019, a“Europe Rising Star” for insurance by the Legal Media Group in 2019and a “Next Generation Partner” for insurance in France by Legal 500in 2020. He publishes regularly and is one of the co-authors of, interalia, The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, The Class Action LawReview, the Insurance Litigation GTDT guidebook, the FARAD PrivateLife Insurance Handbook and The In-House Lawyer’s CountryComparative Guide on Insurance and Reinsurance.

Nicolas is a member of the Franco-British Lawyers Society (FBLS), theBritish Insurance Law Association (BILA), the Insurance andReinsurance Legacy Association (IRLA), the Association Internationaledu Droit des Assurances (AIDA) and the Association du Managementdes Risques et Assurances de l’Enterprise (AMRAE).

Nicolas is bilingual in English and French and also speaks Italian.

Nicolas BouckaertKennedys31 Rue de Lisbonne75008 ParisFranceTel: (33) 1 45 63 61 72Email: [email protected]: www.kennedyslaw.com

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INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE EXPERT LISTINGS

B R A Z I LEduardo PennaCAL-Costa Albino & Lasalvia AdvogadosRio de Janeiro

C ANADAAvi SharabiStieber BerlachToronto

F R AN C ELuc BigleDLA PiperParis

Nicolas Bouckaert See bioKennedysParis

G E RMAN YCarsten HöskerBLD Bach Langheid DallmayrCologne

Martin KarwatzkiHeuking Kühn Lüer WojtekCologne

I N D I AAshish TeniShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & CoNew Delhi

I R E L A N DSinéad LynchA&L GoodbodyDublin

N E T H E R L AN D SPatrick R van der VorstVanNiekerkCieremansRotterdam

NO RWAYLinn Kvade RannekleivDLA PiperOslo

P E R UAlonso BarredaKennedysLima

Gabriel Loli LeónOsterling AbogadosLima

S PA I NVirginia MartínezHogan LovellsMadrid

UN I T E DK I N G DOMCiara JacksonHFWLondon

Thomas PangbourneCMS Cameron McKenna NabarroOlswangLondon

Sam TaceyCooleyLondon

Alaina WadsworthCMS Cameron McKenna NabarroOlswangLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E STamara D BrunoPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanHouston

Peter A HalprinPasichNew York

Guyon H KnightQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanNew York

Jason B LissyJones DayNew York



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INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXPERT LISTINGS

A RG EN T I N AAndrea Carolina CallegariBruchou Fernández Madero & LombardiBuenos Aires

AU S T R A L I AAlistair BridgesMoulis LegalSydney

B E L G I UMYongqing BaoSteptoe & JohnsonBrussels

Maria KrestiyanovaDentonsBrussels

Eva MonardJones DayBrussels

Jennifer PatersonHerbert Smith FreehillsBrussels

Nicoleta TuominenDentonsBrussels

C ANADADrew TylerConlin BedardVancouver

G E RMAN YKatja GöckeGvW Graf von WestphalenHamburg

Florian WolfBlomsteinBerlin

I N D I AAmbarish SathianathanEconomic Laws PracticeMumbai

U K R A I N EVictoria MykuliakSayenko KharenkoKyiv

UN I T E D S TAT E SYujin Kim McNamaraAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldWashington DC

Inessa OwensBaker McKenzieWashington DC

Sarah E ShulmanCassidy Levy KentWashington DC

Dave TownsendDorsey & WhitneyMinneapolis/Washington DC



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INVESTMENT FUNDS EXPERT LISTINGS

F R AN C EMarie PréatClifford ChanceParis

HONG KONGS A RJennifer FengKirkland & EllisHong Kong

Joy LamSidley AustinHong Kong

Tiffany TohDechertHong Kong/Singapore

I R E L A N DLaura ButlerA&L GoodbodyDublin

Kerill O'ShaughnessyA&L GoodbodyDublin

N E T H E R L AN D STim de WitFinniusAmsterdam

S I N G A PO R EReina ChuaSidley AustinSingapore

Zixiang SunSimmons & SimmonsSingapore

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SCarolyn J D AbramMorgan Lewis & BockiusDubai

UN I T E DK I N G DOMJames BoardKirkland & EllisLondon

Robert NieldSidley AustinLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SStephanie A CapistromDechertBoston

Cassie KimmelmanWeil Gotshal & MangesNew York



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LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT EXPERT LISTINGS

B R A Z I LGabriela LimaTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

C H ANN E LI S L A N D SDaniel ReadWalkersJersey

C Z E C HR E P U B L I CZuzana FeriancBaker McKenziePrague

I R E L A N DMichael DoyleA&L GoodbodyDublin

N E T H E R L AN D SDanielle B M PinedoBaker McKenzieAmsterdam

Anna van BrachtBaker McKenzieAmsterdam

NO RWAYAgathe LøwenborgArntzen de BescheOslo

P O R T UGA LTiago Cochofel de AzevedoVdA Vieira de AlmeidaLisbon

S I N G A PO R EKaren MitraAshurstSingapore

S PA I NVictoria TruchueloAllen & OveryMadrid

SW E D E NDino KalamujicDLA PiperStockholm

Johan ZetterströmBaker McKenzieStockholm

UN I T E DK I NGDOMNick WrightHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SDesiree E BuschingAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldNew York

Kimberly CheesemanNorton Rose FulbrightHouston



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LIFE SCIENCES EXPERT LISTINGS

B E L G I UMNicolas CarbonnelleBird & BirdBrussels

Kirian ClaeyéAltiusBrussels

Anna PavlouSidley AustinBrussels

Fabien RoyHogan LovellsBrussels

Josefine SommerSidley AustinBrussels

Koen T'SyenVan Bael & BellisBrussels

B R A Z I LMarco Aurélio TorronteguyTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

CO L OM B I ADaniel CardonaLloredas Camacho & CoBogotá

D E NMA R KMette Hygum ClausenPlesnerCopenhagen

F R AN C ECharles-Henri CaronHogan LovellsParis

Gaëlle MerlierClifford ChanceParis

Eveline Van KeymeulenAllen & OveryParis

G E RMAN YDeniz TschammlerMcDermott Will & EmeryMunich

Tina Welter-BirkHogan LovellsMunich

HUNGA RYEszter Takacsi-NagyKinstellarBudapest

I R E L A N DRóise Nic GhráinneA&L GoodbodyDublin

N EW Z E A L AN DKatherine HebditchAJ ParkAuckland

P O L AN DDominika ChrabanskaKONDRAT & PartnersWarsaw

Agnieszka MajkaHogan LovellsWarsaw

Agnieszka SztoldmanTaylor WessingWarsaw

P O R T UGA LEliana BernardoPLMJLisbon

ROMAN I AMateea PredescuMu at & Asocia iiBucharest

R U S S I ASergei LomakinBaker McKenzieMoscow

S E R B I ANikola StojiljkovicKinstellarBelgrade

S O U T H A F R I C AChyreene TruluckSpoor & FisherPretoria

S PA I NIgnacio PontijasGrau & AnguloMadrid

SW I T Z E R L A N DJanine Reudt-DemontNiederer Kraft FreyZürich

T U R K E YDicle DoganGün + PartnersIstanbul

UN I T E DK I N G DOMPaul AbbottFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

Rafi AllosAllen & OveryLondon

Jennifer AntcliffCarpmaels & RansfordLondon

Magdalena BakowskaHogan LovellsLondon


EXPERT LISTINGS LIFE SCIENCES

Steven BaldwinKirkland & EllisLondon

Joel ColesPowell GilbertLondon

Sarah-Jane DobsonCooleyLondon

Tom EdwardsAllen & OveryLondon

Jules FabrePinsent MasonsLondon

Siddharth KusumakarPowell GilbertLondon

David LancasterPinsent MasonsLondon

Daniel LimKirkland & EllisLondon

Rachel MumbyBristowsLondon

Jin OoiKirkland & EllisLondon

Toby SearAllen & OveryLondon

Louise StromArnold & PorterLondon

Ewan TownsendArnold & PorterLondon

Andrew WellsHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SHannah H FreemanRopes & GrayBoston

Abigail LangsamArnold & PorterNew York

Eric RothmanArnold & PorterNew York

Michael J SchubertLeydig Voit & MayerChicago

Prajakta A SonalkerHogan LovellsNew York

Alexander VarondGoodwin ProcterWashington DC



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ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES LITIGATION

Louis Burrus (dual-qualified in both Switzerland and in England andWales) (solicitor of the Senior Courts) is a partner in SchellenbergWittmer's dispute resolution group, based in Geneva. He specialises indomestic and international commercial litigation, in particular inbanking and financial disputes. He is known for his strong expertise inenforcing foreign decisions and obtaining freezing injunctions andinterim reliefs.

Louis also conducts and leads investigations in various other fieldssuch as sports and global commodity trading in regards to casesinvolving bribery and corruption, sanctions violations or moneylaundering.

Louis’s recent expertise in litigation includes: acting as lead counsel toan international private banking group on all litigation aspects relatedto an acquisition of another large bank; Representation of a largetransport company before the Swiss courts in the context of severalcourt litigations initiated by a former shareholder and assistance to alarge international bank in the context of a large on-going litigationbefore the courts of the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

Louis has a strong and unique expertise and understanding of the useof technology in litigation matters (in particular e-discovery, analyticstools, predictive coding, etc.) which is a huge added value to many ofhis banking litigation cases.

Louis has been a partner at Schellenberg Wittmer since 2016 and is oneof the youngest lawyers in the firm’s history to be elected to thepartnership. In 2014-2015, he worked in the global White-CollarCrime & Corporate Investigations practice of elite firm QuinnEmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in London.

Louis is a board advisory member of the Swiss LegalTech Association.Since 2019 Louis also serves as co-chair of the Diversity & Inclusioncommission of the Geneva Bar Association.

Louis Burrus Schellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch


Aylin Güney King is a partner in Bonnard Lawson’s dispute resolutiongroup in Geneva. Her main area of expertise is complex commercialdisputes involving contractual, banking and corporate matters. Shealso developed a strong practice in freezing injunction proceedings andenforcement of foreign decisions and arbitral awards.

Aylin regularly advises and represents individuals and corporateentities before cantonal and federal authorities and courts, includingthe Swiss Supreme Court, as well as arbitral tribunals, in civil andcriminal proceedings with international ramifications.

Being fluent in Turkish and having worked for a leading law firm inIstanbul, Aylin also represents Turkish conglomerates, companies andindividuals in a broad range of commercial disputes.

Some examples of Aylin’s work include acting for: a multinationalcompany in a dispute against a major buyer active in the automotiveindustry; a leading European bank in a dispute arising out of anagreement related to the development of a commodity index; a majorasset manager in a law suit brought by multiple high net worthindividuals; a foreign state in the framework of freezing injunctionproceedings in Switzerland.

Aylin is admitted to the Swiss Bar and the New York State Bar. Shegraduated from the University of Geneva in 2007 and obtained anLL.M. at Columbia Law School in New York in 2011. She has nearly 10years’ experience working in the dispute resolution groups of leadinglaw firms in Geneva and Istanbul. Her working languages are French,English and Turkish.

Aylin Güney KingBonnard Lawson Geneva LtdRue du Général-Dufour 11CH-1204 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 322 25 00Email: [email protected]: www.bonnard-lawson.com



LITIGATION ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Kevin Schwartz is a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell,Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He is also Chair of the Judiciary Committee ofthe New York City Bar Association and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at YaleLaw School, where he teaches an advanced Corporate LitigationSeminar.

Mr Schwartz’s practice includes corporate, commercial, and securitieslitigation at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as a variety ofregulatory and corporate governance matters. He has worked on anumber of the firm’s high-profile matters, including mergers-and-acquisitions litigation in the courts of Delaware and other complexlitigation in courts around the country.

In addition, Mr Schwartz has worked on a number of pro bono mattersimportant to New York State. As part of the team led by former WhiteHouse Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Mr Schwartz represented the NewYork Judiciary in historic constitutional litigation over the State of NewYork’s extended failure to adjust judicial salaries. He represented thePartnership for New York City and the Bar Association of the City ofNew York as amici curiae before the Court of Appeals and the SupremeCourt of the United States, including in the landmark case in which theSupreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. On a specialtask force created by the Chief Judge of New York, Mr Schwartz servedas legal advisor to the task force co-chairs Judith Kaye, the former ChiefJudge of New York, and Martin Lipton, to reform the CommercialDivision of the New York Supreme Court. He was also a RockefellerFellow for the Partnership for New York City, and is now a legal advisorto the Partnership Innovation Council, a panel of business leaderscommitted to ensuring that New York’s legal and regulatoryenvironment keeps pace with the technological revolution transformingbusiness and the economy.

As Chair of the 140-year-old Judiciary Committee of the NYC BarAssociation, Mr Schwartz leads a committee of 50 lawyers in reviewingand interviewing every judicial nominee for all state and federal courtsbased in NYC, as well as candidates for District Attorney in the fiveboroughs and nominees for U.S. Attorney for the Southern and EasternDistricts of New York. Mr Schwartz also serves on the Council onJudicial Administration, which coordinates the work of the City Barcommittees addressing issues that concern the state and federal courts.He previously served as secretary of both the Judiciary Committee andthe Council on Criminal Justice.

Mr Schwartz received his B.A. from Harvard College and was awardedthe Sophia Freund Prize as the top-ranked summa cum laude graduate.He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University as a MarshallScholar, received his J.D. from Yale Law School, and previously served asa Lecturer on the Political Science Department Faculty of Yale University.Mr Schwartz served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on theSupreme Court of the United States and to Judge Guido Calabresi on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Kevin S SchwartzWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz51 West 52nd StreetNew York 10019USTel: (1) 212 403 1062Email: [email protected]: www.wlrk.com



EXPERT LISTINGS LITIGATION

C ANADAMyriam BrixiLavery de BillyMontréal

Frédéric PlamondonOsler Hoskin & HarcourMontréal

C H ANN E LI S L A N D SJames AngusOgierJersey

C H I L EJorge BoldtCariola Díez Pérez-CotaposSantiago

Pablo CorreaUgarte Ried y CorreaSantiago

F I N L AN DIlona KarppinenCastrén & SnellmanHelsinki

F R AN C EAlexandre BischDebevoise & PlimptonParis

Delphine DendievelAllen & OveryParis

Lisa JanaszewiczBougartchev Moyne AssociésParis

Julie MetoisAllen & OveryParis

G E RMAN YNicolas NohlenAshurstFrankfurt am Main

HONG KONGS A RAnita FongNorton Rose FulbrightHong Kong

I R E L A N DSarah MurphyA&L GoodbodyDublin

Ciarán Ó ConluainA&L GoodbodyDublin

J A PANYuka TeraguchiMorrison & FoersterTokyo

N EW Z E A L AN DJoe EdwardsRussell McVeaghAuckland

P O R T UGA LDiogo Castanheira PereiraCMS Rui Pena & ArnautLisbon

ROMAN I ADan CristeaTuca Zbârcea & Asocia iiBucharest

SW I T Z E R L A N DRoman BaechlerHomburgerZürich

Louis Burrus See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

David CuendetWalder WyssZürich

Daniela FrenkelPestalozziZürich

Aylin Güney King See bioBonnard LawsonGeneva

Jonas OggierNiedermanZürich

Léonard StoyanovMeyerlustenberger LachenalGeneva

Cyrill SüessBianchiSchwaldZürich

Garen UcariPoncet TurrettiniGeneva

UN I T E DK I N G DOMCécile BurgessAddleshaw GoddardLondon

William CharlesMilbankLondon

William FoubisterHogan LovellsLondon

Richard HoyleEssex Court ChambersLondon

Shail Patel4 New SquareLondon

Bibi Sarraf-YazdiWinston & StrawnLondon


LITIGATION EXPERT LISTINGS

UN I T E D S TAT E SRachel BrookWalden Macht & HaranNew York

Dean Lindsay Chapman JrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldNew York

Z W Julius ChenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldWashington DC

Susannah GeltmanSimpson Thacher & BartlettNew York

Iri A ItkinKasowitz Benson TorresNew York

Jennifer McDougallKasowitz Benson TorresNew York

Ryan P MontefuscoKasowitz Benson TorresNew York

Benjamin M MundelSidley AustinWashington DC

Alexandra Chanin NelsonThompson HineAtlanta

Kevin S Schwartz See bioWachtell Lipton Rosen & KatzNew York

Jacqueline E TamboneGreenberg TraurigAtlanta

Jonathan WilkersonThe Lanier Law FirmHouston



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PATENTS ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Mirko Weinert (admitted to practice in 2007) specializes in national andmulti-national patent litigation and trade secret litigation. He has gainedextensive experience in all matters relating to intellectual property rightswith a technical background, as well as other areas of intellectualproperty law. He particularly advises clients in the technical areas oftelecommunications, information technology, pharmaceuticals, medicaldevices and mechanics.

Before becoming an attorney, Mirko worked as a research fellow at theJohann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Prof. Dr.Zekoll, LL.M.) where he extended his expertise in procedural law andearned his PhD in 2006.

Mirko is visiting lecturer for patent law at the law faculty of the JohannWolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and visiting lecturerfor the law on licence contracts at the Heinrich-Heine UniversityDüsseldorf. In addition, he also speaks at conferences on patent law.

Mirko WeinertHoyng Rokh MonegierSteinstrasse 2040212 DüsseldorfGermanyTel: (49) 211 550 220Email: [email protected]: www.hoyngrokhmonegier.com

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EXPERT LISTINGS PATENTS

B E L G I UMKristof NeefsInteoBrussels

C ANADADaniel DaviesSmart & BiggarOttawa

Ryan T EvansSmart & BiggarToronto

Jean-Charles GrégoireMarks & ClerkOttawa

Patrick LaycockParlee McLawsEdmonton

Jeff LeuschnerSmart & BiggarOttawa

G E RMAN YBolko EhlgenLinklatersFrankfurt am Main

Stephan NeuhausHogan LovellsDüsseldorf

Marina WehlerArnold & RuessDüsseldorf

Mirko Weinert See bioHoyng Rokh MonegierDüsseldorf

I N D I AArpita KulshresthaAnand and AnandNew Delhi

I S R A E LUri FruchtmanLiad Whatstein & CoTel Aviv

N E T H E R L AN D STjibbe DoumaDentonsAmsterdam

Jelle DrokFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerAmsterdam

Ruben LaddéFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerAmsterdam

Dirk-Jan RidderinkhofHogan LovellsAmsterdam

Marthe RiewaldTaylor WessingAmsterdam

Carlos van StaverenDe Brauw Blackstone WestbroekAmsterdam

R U S S I AAlexey MikhailovPatentusMoscow

UN I T E DK I N G DOMPaul AbbottFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

Isobel BarryCarpmaels & RansfordLondon

Christopher de MaunyBird & BirdLondon

Simon LlewellynCarpmaels & RansfordLondon

Sarah NaisbyFreshfields Bruckhaus DeringerLondon

Tom OliverPowell GilbertLondon

Annsley Merelle WardWilmerHaleLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SSparkle T EllisonBoulware & ValoirHouston

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RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Simon Le Wita advises French and international companies on the fullspectrum of commercial, financial and international litigation matters,as well as on corporate restructuring and insolvency proceedings,particularly within the framework of cross-border transactions.

Simon is known for his “strong appreciation of the wider legal andcultural background in which foreign lawyers and their clients operate” inaddition to his “good technical knowledge of French procedures”.(Legal500 2020). Clients also praise his willingness to “fighttenaciously” to defend their positions and say he is “a genuine pleasureto work with”. (Legal500 2020)

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2007, Simon graduated from the ESSECGrande Ecole (2004-2007) and holds a degree and an advanced degree(DEA) in business law and economics from the University of Paris IPanthéon-Sorbonne (2004).

Before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2007 as an associate, hestarted his career at Calyon Americas in New York City (2006-2007).He was appointed as Counsel in 2018.

He co-authored “Le choix de la médiation dans les litiges industriels”,L’Usine Nouvelle, 3rd March 2014; “First assessment of the Court ofAppeal’s procedural reform” Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit,February 2013 and «Financement LBO et Entreprises en difficulté »,Revue du droit bancaire et financier, 30 juin 2008.

Simon Le Wita speaks French and is fluent in English.

Simon Le Wita De Parideu Brocas Maffei57 avenue d’Iéna – CS 1161075773 Paris Cedex 16FranceTel: (33) 1 72 69 70 31 Email: [email protected]: www.de-pardieu.com

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Transfer pricing disputes: a matter ofevaluation rather than evidences

Diego ConteDe Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani Studio LegaleMilan

IntroductionThe allocation of the burden of proof is one of the key issues in thecontext of tax litigations on transfer pricing. This is mainly due to thenature of the transfer pricing, itself, which is substantiated by high de-gree of evaluation so that the identification of the party responsible togive evidence about the compliance of the transactions with the arm’slength principle is crucial.Under Italian legislations the regime of proofs is regulated at three

different provisions: the civil code (“c.c.”), the code of civil trials(“c.p.c.”) and the legislative decree no. 546/1992 (“D.Lgs. 546/1992”).Conventionally the regime of the burden of proof is set forth by

art. 2697 c.c. which imposes claimant asking for the protection of aright to prove the facts that underpin it, and requires the judge to re-ject the claim if such proof lacks. This regime triggers a number ofcorollaries. In the first place, there is the “principle of non-dispute”(see art. 115 c.p.c.), according to which the facts alleged by a partywhich are not rebutted by the counterparty are considered as provenevidence. In the second place, there is the so called “principle of prox-imity of the proof”, originated by case-law, which allotted the burdenof proof to the party considered “closer” to facts (e.g., delivering ofenvelopes or parcels for which case-laws placed the burden on the re-cipient to prove what was received regardless of who can take advan-tage of the circumstance).In principle, the rule set by art. 2697 cc. applies to tax litigations

and tax disputes on TP and arm’s length principle as follows: the taxauthorities must prove circumstances causing an increase in the taxburden (e.g. higher revenues) while the taxpayer those leading to a de-crease (e.g. higher costs).

Tax litigations on TP and the burden ofproofDespite the matter at hand is governed bywidespread principles (also at an interna-tional level), the definition of an arm’s lengthprice for intercompany transactions of goodsand services raises concern which does notappear to be a matter of proof nonetheless amatter to be solved in the light of the generalrule of the burden of proof. To the contrary,the transfer pricing dispute seems to functionon a completely different level compared toproof.

In this regard, as a preliminary remark, one should consider thattransfer pricing, unlike price agreed, does not reflect historical facts.Whilst, transfer pricing is the result of an evaluation or, better, the re-sult of a methodological choice and its correct application. In fact,when discussing about transfer pricing, the dispute revolves aroundtwo questions: (1) what’s the correct method to the case? and (2) whatresult does the application of the correct method bring?These questions are clearly different from those characterizing the

probative matter under which one does not ask whether a given claimby a party is correct but whether it is true.

There is a clear departure from the basic rulesif one just considers that the so-called “judgmentof correctness” is a judgment that always requiresan element of comparison, of a tertium compara-tionis, an element that is not conceivable in situa-tions where probative matter exists.Some examples can give clearer idea. Won-

dering if a certain transaction is priced incompliance with arm’s length principle fullydiverges from asking questions such as “it’sraining today”, “someone shot at someone” or“company X bought a good for which he paidan amount equal to Z”.Therefore, when a tax system disqualifies

the price agreed between the parties in inter-

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company transactions in favor of a different and hypothetical price,also that tax system deliberately departs from a “world of facts” toenter a “world of hypothesis”. This world of facts neither can be as-sessed under terms of “truth” or “falsity” nor, therefore, under proba-tive terms but rather under merely evaluative terms.By just excluding factual elements pertaining transfer pricing pro-

cess (e.g. elements relating to comparable or functions performed bythe companies), the transfer pricing dispute, then, cannot be decidedbased on the principle of the burden of proof but rather only on thebasis of the correct application of the legal and technical rules thatcharacterize the identification of the probable price between indepen-dent parties.

The transfer pricing as probative, rather than factual matterBy denying factual nature to transfer pricing and by excluding transferpricing from evidences bring very important consequences from thepoint of view of the application of both the tax assessment and tax lit-igation procedures. From the point of view of the application of tax assessments, pre-

liminary it is worth to outline that under Italian tax system taxes areassessed exclusively through an administrative procedure while the taxdispute is a substantial verification of the correctness of the assess-ment performed by tax administration.Specifically, the allegation for higher taxes is made through an ad-

ministrative assessment notice (i.e., deed of assessment) containingboth the quantification of the higher tax and the explicit factual andlegal reasons behind the allegation (the “motivation”). When the tax-payer appeals the deed of assessment, before the relevant tax court, hedoes not claim to the judges for the declaration of non-existence ofthe obligation of higher tax but rather he claim for the annulment ofthe deed of assessment because it is based on an incorrect motivation(for inconsistency of the factual or incorrect interpretation of therules).From this point of view, approaching the transfer price not as a

probative matter implies that a deed of assessment on transfer pricingmust elaborates on the method chosen by the taxpayer and its appli-cation to ground the reasons these are considered incorrect. To thisend, neither commonly used clauses, nor the mere claim that themethod used is wrong nor even the contrast of a different method orcalculations may sufficiently ground the deed of assessment. In thelack of that grounds, the deed of assessment should be subject to an-nulment. This is particularly true when discussing overestimatedcosts. Should the transfer price be regarded as a fact, the deed of as-sessment would have simply denied the correctness of the price: thiswould be sufficient to allocate the taxpayer with the burden of proof.Whilst, the mere negation of a circumstance would not be enough tochallenge the tax deductibility of a cost, since it is an evaluation pro-

cedure and because of a general principle of correctness and credibil-ity recognized to taxpayers. Therefore, it is crucial that tax authoritiesexplicitly substantiate reasons leading to consider incorrect thechoices and/or calculations made by taxpayer.Yet, the disqualification of the probative nature may lead relevant

consequences at tax litigation level such as the following.In the first place, the principles and procedural rules relating to the

proof and the burden of proof cannot apply whilst only those princi-ples and procedural rules relating to interpretation of law or evalua-tion could: for instance, the “principle of proximity of the proof” orthe deadlines for filing the means of proof could not apply.Another important consequence relates to the process of appeal

before the Italian Supreme Court. In this regard, it should be notedthat the Italian legal system generally prevents a review of the eviden-tiary material before the Italian Supreme Court so that by denying thenature of probative matter to transfer pricing allows to overcome thismatter.Additionally, it must be observed that in situations where the tax

courts denies the correctness of the price applied by the taxpayer, theconsequences will not fall within the burden of proof rules as theywill be addressed along the line of any other evaluation / interpreta-tive elements under the taxpayer-tax authorities interplays. Moreover,due to the principle stipulating far a presumption of correctness infavor of the taxpayer behaviors, the tax court must first evaluate thelogical-legal (rather than factual) reasonableness of the reasons un-derlying the dispute of underestimation of revenues or overestimationof costs and, only if it resolves against taxpayer, either new method orcalculation proposed by tax authorities could be scrutinized in con-junction with defensive argument of taxpayer. Even in case of tax dis-pute on costs, therefore – contrary to what happens, for example,when cost is alleged as non-existent – it will not be sufficient to dis-qualify cost or to provide evidences in order to stem a defensive“counteraction” on taxpayer, as it will be necessary that the tax courtis convinced that allegation are properly grounded.

ConclusionsThe change over the approach on transfer pricing tax disputes pro-posed here involves a departure from certain obligations and chargeslaid on the parties of a tax dispute (including tax courts), and howthey are called to perform their function.Of course, the extent of the change and the consequences it may

trigger highly depend on the nature (administrative and / or judicial)recognized to the process of application of rules and the assessment ofhigher taxes.In any case, however, it seems a necessary and fundamental change

to better solve the matter and to make the most of the evaluative na-ture of this phenomenon.


ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES TAX

Diego Conte is an Italian and Polish tax lawyer based in Milan at DeBerti-Jacchia Law Firm (www.dejalex.com).

He attended with awards an LLM in national an international taxationin 2007-2008 and a master in tax litigation in 2013.

He is actively involved and associated in various professional bodies.He is member of the board of ANTI – Associazione NazionaleTributaristi Italiani, Sez. Lombardia and coordinator of the YoungCommittee, and Italian delegate at CFE – Tax Advisers Europe. He isalso member of the Tax Chamber of Milan and of AIJA – InternationalAssociation of Young Lawyer.

He regularly publishes in specialized newspapers and scientificmagazines.

He practices in Italian, English and Polish.

Diego ConteDe Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani StudioLegaleVia S. Paolo, 720121 MilanItalyTel: (39) 02 72554Email: [email protected]: www.dejalex.com

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Stefano Rossi is an Italian registered accountant and European TaxAdvisor. He is a tax partner of Andersen Tax & Legal Italy and leads thetransfer pricing practice for Italy and for the European Region.

Stefano focuses on transfer pricing compliance and consulting(comparability and benchmarking analysis, value chain analysis,drafting of Master and Local files; Country-by-Country-Reporting;BEPS-related risks and challenges; business restructurings; IPmigration) and on international tax (hidden PE identification;application of DTA; residency status; tax planning and tax riskmanagement).

He assists multinationals with the introduction of alternative disputeresolution mechanisms such as ex-post mechanisms (EU arbitrationclause, the MAP and the newly enforced EU Directive nr.2017/1852),when a tax audit in the field of transfer pricing arises, or seeks toprevent future disputes with tax Authorities by negotiating ex-antemechanisms such as the Advance Pricing Agreements (APA), which inmost of the cases are undertaken in a bilateral or multilateral way.

His track record includes the submission and negotiation with foreigntax authorities of APAs on financial transactions such as intercompanyloans, financial guarantees, cash pooling arrangements and hedging onderivatives), centralized services and IP licensing, including Patent Boxpreferential tax regimes.

He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Ca’ Foscari Universityof Venice in accounting, controlling and finance awarded magna cumlaude after having discussed a thesis on transfer pricing.

He also holds a Master of Legal Studies in Taxation (MSLT) granted bythe University of San Francisco (CA), focusing on the US Federalincome taxation system.

He regularly joins conferences and webinars as speaker oninternational tax and transfer pricing related matters and challenges.

Stefano RossiAndersen Tax & LegalCorso Magenta, 8220123 MilanItalyTel: (39) 02 4810 0471Email: [email protected]: 00 39 347 756 0273Website: www.andersentaxlegal.it

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AU S T R I ALars GläserSchindler AttorneysVienna

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B R A Z I LChristiane Alves AlvarengaTozziniFreire AdvogadosSão Paulo

C ANADACasey Richardson-ScottBlake Cassels & GraydonToronto

CO L OM B I ACristina StiefkenLewin & WillsBogotá

F R AN C ENicolas AndréJones DayParis

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Steffen C HörnerHerbert Smith FreehillsFrankfurt am Main

Moritz MühlhausenPwCCologne

Oliver StaatzJones DayFrankfurt am Main

HONG KONGS A RStefano MarianiDeaconsHong Kong

I R E L A N DLynn CramerMaples GroupDublin

I TA L YFabrizio AlimandiCMS Adonnino Ascoli & CavasolaScamoniMilan

Diego Conte See bioDe Berti Jacchia Franchini ForlaniMilan

Stefano Rossi See bioAndersen Tax & LegalMilan

L U X EM BOU RGMaxime BudzinClifford ChanceLuxembourg

Julie CarbienerAllen & OveryLuxembourg

Jacques WantzDLA PiperLuxembourg

M E X I C OCatalina Mandujano OrtizThompson & KnightMexico City

Juan José Paullada EguiraoRitch Mueller Heather y NicolauMexico City

N E T H E R L AN D SLisette KamyshevaKC LegalAmsterdam

Yannick SchuermanNorton Rose FulbrightAmsterdam

Zoya ZalmaiPwCAmsterdam

P O R T UGA LFilipe AbreuPLMJLisbon

Maria Inês AssisAbreu AdvogadosLisbon

Miguel Cortez PimentelMLGTSLisbon

Filipa Simõe FigueiredoGarriguesLisbon

Maria GouveiaMLGTSLisbon

António Queiroz MartinsMLGTSLisbon

Teresa Pala SchwalbachSérvulo & AssociadosLisbon

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ROMAN I AIonela FlorescuDLA Piper Dinu SCABucharest

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Anitza ZesterDeloitte SwedenStockholm

SW I T Z E R L A N DRuth Bloch-RiemerBär & KarrerZürich

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Susanne Liebel-KotzBaker McKenzieZürich

Fabienne LimacherWalder WyssZürich

Gregory von GuntenLenoir Delgado & AssociésGeneva

T U R K E YMehment Onur ÇelikerPekin & PekinIstanbul

Orhan PalaEsin Attorney PartnershipIstanbul

UN I T E DK I N G DOMLaura HoylandWhite & CaseLondon

Lina le RouxClifford ChanceLondon

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F R AN C ELaurie-Anne AncenysAllen & OveryParis

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ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES TRANSFER PRICING

Valentin is a Partner at Fidal in Paris. He joined the transfer pricingdepartment of the firm in 2019, which he co-leads. He previouslyworked 13 years with the international tax department of CMS FrancisLefebvre Avocats.

He is used to providing advice in relation to the design of transferpricing policies, for instance in the framework of supply chainreorganisations. He also devotes significant time to tax auditsettlements, including litigations before the French courts, andprocedures for the elimination of double taxation when necessary.

In 2009 and 2010, he was seconded to a client of the IT industry on apart time basis to prepare and deploy the group’s transfer pricingpolicies, in coordination with the Group Tax Director.

Valentin is also experienced in dealing with transfer pricing issues inAfrica and relating to commodities..

He also coordinated the initiatives of the CMS network’s GlobalTransfer Pricing Group from 2013 to 2019.

Furthermore, he has co-written several contributions to the OECD inthe framework of answers to call for comments. He has organised andled several trainings for professionals and CMS tax lawyers. Heparticipated in the definition of the content and writing of CMSTransfer Pricing Group’s publications such as tax alerts or newsletters.He also participates regularly in the preparation and publication ofarticles on transfer pricing. In addition, Valentin organises and leadsconferences.

Valentin graduated from Paris 2 – Panthéon-Assas University (MasterDegree in Business Law in 2003), Lille University (Master 2 in BusinessTax Law in 2004) and EDHEC Business School (Master in Managementin 2006). He is an attorney at law at the Hauts-de-Seine Bar.

A French native, Valentin is fluent in English and has a very goodcommand of Spanish.

Fidal is the largest independent business law firm in France and Europe.

Fidal is also, through its Paris Regional Division, leader on the Parisianmarket, with 520 professionals including 355 lawyers and legal experts.With offices in Paris, in Ile-de-France, but also with the assistance of ouroffices in French overseas territories and Brussels, our lawyers, specializedin all areas of business law are able to provide personalized advice inmany sectors. Established in Paris since 1924, Fidal advises more than 20000 businesses and organizations of all sizes and their executives, frominternational groups to middle market companies, with the samestandards of quality.

Valentin LescroartFidal 4-6 avenue d’Alsace92982 Paris la Défense cedexFranceTel: (33) 1 55 68 14 44Email: [email protected]: www.fidal.com

F R AN C E


TRANSFER PRICING EXPERT LISTINGS

AU S T R I ALars GläserSchindler AttorneysVienna

F I N L AN DMarkku RenkoAlder & SoundHelsinki

Sampo VidingBoreniusHelsinki

F R AN C EAntoine FaureCMS Francis Lefebvre AvocatsParis

Valentin Lescroart See bioFidalParis

G E RMAN Y

Philip de HomontNERA Economic ConsultingFrankfurt am Main

Hendrik HandteDeloitte GermanyMunich

Lars HaverkampFlick Gocke SchaumburgDüsseldorf

Andreas KammerPwCMannheim

Tanja KeserPwCMunich

Janine MüllerKPMGMunich

Simon RenaudPwCDüsseldorf

I S R A E LLior HaddadEconomics PartnersTel Aviv

L U X EM BOU RGBenjamin TempelaereArendt & MedernachLuxembourg

N E T H E R L AN D SOlga ShambalevaEYAmsterdam

ROMAN I ANarcisa IchimTuca Zbârcea & Asocia iiBucharest

UN I T E D A R A BEM I R AT E SRabia GandapurDeloitte Middle EastUnited Arab Emirates

UN I T E DK I N G DOMAmanda PletzNERA Economic ConsultingLondon/Paris/Geneva

UN I T E D S TAT E SSirathorn B J DechsakulthornDLA PiperNew York

Marco FiaccadoriPwCWashington DC

Joe TobinDeloitte TaxArlington

Tom BraukmannNERA Economic ConsultingMesseturmFriedrich Ebert Anlage 4960308 Frankfurt am MainGermany Tel: (49) 69 710447511Mobile: (49) 171 3894639Email: [email protected]: www.nera.com



T R U S T S A N D E S TAT E S


TRUSTS AND ESTATES ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Andrea Dorjee-Good is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s privatewealth group in Zurich. She is a certified specialist in inheritance lawand advises private clients on all aspects of estate and successionplanning, including pre and post-nuptial agreements, wills, successionpacts, lasting powers of attorney, trusts and foundations. Her practiceareas further include contentious estates and she regularly representsclients in complex cross-border estate disputes.

Some recent examples of Andrea’s expertise in private client mattersinclude advising family members of a major family-ownedcorporation in a family dispute related to the family business andrepresenting one of several heirs of a major family-owned business ina complex cross-border international trust and estate dispute.

Andrea is a member of several professional associations, including theSwiss Bar Association, the Zurich Bar Association, the InternationalAssociation of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and the Society of Trust andEstate Practitioners (STEP). She regularly publishes and speaks in herfield of specialisation.

Andrea graduated from the University of St Gallen School of Law (liciur 2004) and was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 2007. She joinedSchellenberg Wittmer as a trainee in 2004 and, after gaining courtexperience as a clerk at the District Court of Winterthur, she rejoinedthe firm as an associate in 2007, she was promoted to counsel in 2013and became a partner in 2020. Andrea obtained a diploma withdistinction in international trust management from STEP in 2014 andqualified as Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law in 2019.

Andrea Dorjee-GoodSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19PO Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 5252Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



EXPERT LISTINGS TRUSTS AND ESTATES

G E RMAN YRagnar BaderschneiderSchmid, v.Buttlar & PartnerMunich

HONG KONGStefano MarianiDeaconsHong Kong

SW I T Z E R L A N DAndrea Dorjee-Good See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Alexander GreterLenz & StaehelinZürich

UN I T E DK I N G DOMEmma HollandStewartsLondon

Kate SalterKingsley NapleyLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SElizabeth A FaistDjuric SprattAtlanta



WH I T E C O L L A R C R I M E


ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES WHITE COLLAR CRIME

Alexandros Tsagkalidis has been with ANAGNOSTOPOULOS since2008. During his time with the firm, Alexandros has appeared incomplex white-collar crime cases and gained broad experience inbusiness crime, money laundering, asset recovery, internalinvestigations, financial fraud, extradition and mutual assistancerequests.

Some of Alexandros’ notable cases in 2019-2020:

The Court of Appeal Athens cleared on 22-1-2020 six former LMEricsson executives (including an ex-CEO) from charges of briberyand money laundering in relation to the purchase of militaryequipment by the Hellenic Ministry of Defence in 1999. The Courtruled that the charges against the Ericsson defendants lacked legalbasis. By the same judgment seven co-defendants have been convictedfor bribery-related money laundering, among them a formerministerial secretary, a well-known businessman, and financialintermediaries.

The Court of Appeal Athens cleared on 23-7-2019 five former BayerHellas executives from charges of active bribery in relation to unlawfulpayments to HCPs, which allegedly took place from 2005 until 2009through intermediary companies. Ilias Anagnostopoulos andAlexandros Tsagkalidis represented a top-ranking Director of theCompany.

Alexandros was born in Rhodes, Greece, in 1984 and was called to theBar in 2009. He received his education at the School of Law, NationalUniversity of Athens (LL.B. 2007, LL.M. in Criminal Law and CriminalProcedure, 2011).

He is a member of the Legal Experts Advisory Panel of Fair TrialsInternational and of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association.Alexandros has published in Greek and English on matters of AssetRecovery, Investigation Procedures, Business Crimes, Extradition andDefence Rights in the EU.

Alexandros TsagkalidisANAGNOSTOPOULOS6, Patr. Ioakeim Street106 74 AthensGreeceTel: (30) 210 7292010Email: [email protected]: www.iag.gr

G R E E C E

George Ayoub is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s disputeresolution, white-collar crime and compliance, and internal corporateinvestigations groups in Geneva.

His key areas of expertise and practice focus on white-collar crime,international mutual legal assistance, extradition, asset tracing andrecovery, and internal corporate investigations. George is alsospecialised in regulatory and compliance issues and sanctions law.

George has acted as counsel for both individuals and corporate entitiesin criminal and administrative proceedings before cantonal andfederal authorities and courts, including the Swiss Supreme Court.

George’s recent expertise in white-collar crime matters include:representation of and assistance to a prominent businessman and hisgroup of companies in relation to Swiss criminal investigations in thecontext of an alleged corruption scheme; representation of a majordigital vendor in the context of Swiss criminal proceedings; andrepresentation of a foreign sovereign fund and affiliated companies inSwiss criminal investigations targeting one of its former senior officers.

George is a member of the International Bar Association’s anti-corruption, business crime and criminal law committees.

After graduating from the University of Lausanne, School of Law, in2007 George worked at the Office of the Attorney General ofSwitzerland. He was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 2011. Prior tojoining Schellenberg Wittmer in 2012, he worked at another renownedSwiss business law firm as a contract and corporate lawyer.

Before embarking upon his legal profession, George accumulatedseveral years’ experience as an airline pilot for the Swiss nationalcarrier.

George AyoubSchellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



WHITE COLLAR CRIME ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES

Pierre Bydzovsky holds a Master in Law degree from the University ofFribourg, Switzerland after having also studied at the Ruprechts-Karl-University of Heidelberg, Germany, with a specialization in EuropeanUnion law.

He has completed his education with a Certificate of Advanced Studiesin Criminal Judiciary from the Swiss Criminal Judicial School withhonours (2011) and with a Master of Laws (LL.M) in InternationalTrade Law of University Institute of European Studies and Universityof Turin, Italy, where he graduated in 2015 summa cum laude.

Pierre has more than 12 years of experience in commercial disputes.He has been admitted to the Geneva Bar in 2007, is a member of theGeneva Bar Examination Commission, of the Geneva Bar Association,of the Swiss Bar Association, of the Geneva Business Law Associationand of the ICC-YAF.

As a partner of the Litigation group of Borel & Barbey, he assistsparties in white collar crime related proceedings and commercialdisputes, in particular related to inheritance law, foundations andtrusts. He is also member of the Executive Committee of the SwissBasketball Federation and advises federations, clubs and sportsmen onsport law issues.

Pierre is also a member of the Board of the Pension Institution of theGeneva Bar Association.

In addition to these civilian functions, Pierre also acts as President ofthe Military Court 1 responsible for judging criminal offences undermilitary law, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Pierre BydzovskyBorel & Barbey2 Rue de JargonnantPO Box 60451211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 1800Email: [email protected]: www.borel-barbey.com


Clara Poglia is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s dispute resolution,white-collar crime and compliance, and internal corporateinvestigations groups in Geneva.

Clara’s key areas of expertise and practice focus on white-collar crime,international mutual legal assistance both in criminal and tax matters,extradition, asset tracing and recovery, and internal corporateinvestigations. Clara is also specialised in regulatory and complianceissues.

Clara has acted as counsel for both individuals and corporate entitiesin criminal and administrative proceedings before cantonal andfederal authorities and courts, including the Swiss Supreme Court.

Some of Clara’s expertise in white-collar crime includes:representation and assistance to a company in a major investigationinvolving potential wrongdoing (allegations of corruption) harmingthe client’s interests and giving rise to Swiss criminal proceedings;representation of a corporation in criminal proceedings targeting alarge Ponzi scheme and in related bankruptcy proceedings and assetsrecovery; representation of European corporations targeted by arequest of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters addressed by theUS Department of Justice to Switzerland; representation of the sameentities in the Swiss domestic related criminal proceedings; andrepresentation of a foreign businessman in the frame of domesticcriminal proceedings for alleged funds mismanagement and moneylaundering (assets frozen for around US$1 billion).

Clara is recognised in the Global Investigations Review’s Women inInvestigations 2018 list and in their Top 40 under 40 2020 list. She isthe chapter leader of the Women in White Collar Defense Association’sSwiss chapter.

Prior to joining Schellenberg Wittmer, Clara was a law clerk at theSwiss Federal Criminal Tribunal (for French and Italian languages) andan associate in another Swiss business law firm. She was also active asa translator for a renowned Swiss legal magazine.

Clara PogliaSchellenberg Wittmer15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 20881211 GenevaSwitzerlandTel: (41) 22 707 8000Email: [email protected]: www.swlegal.ch



ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES WHITE COLLAR CRIME

Dr Roland Ryser is a counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s white-collarcrime and internal corporate investigations teams. Roland hasextensive experience in contentious matters, advising and representingindividuals and corporate clients as defence counsel in a broad rangeof regulatory and business crime investigations. Roland’s practice alsocovers international mutual legal and administrative assistanceproceedings, asset recovery and anti-money laundering, anti-briberyand trade compliance including sanctions, embargoes, war material,dual use etc.

Some examples of Roland’s expertise include defending high-profileclients in administrative criminal proceedings for tax evasion; advisingand defending a major Swiss bank in an investigation into allegationsof corruption-related money laundering in a cross-border context; andacting as defence counsel to a Swiss bank in criminal proceedings forfraud, money laundering, insufficient diligence in financialtransactions and violations of AML reporting obligations.

Roland is a member of various professional associations, including theZurich and Swiss Bar Associations, the International Bar Association,the Defence Counsel’s Section of the Zurich Bar and the Swiss Societyof Criminal Law. He publishes in his fields of specialisation andlectures on business criminal law in AML compliance officer trainings.

Roland graduated with a master of laws from the University of Zurichin 2004 and received a PhD in corporate criminal law in 2006. Beforejoining Schellenberg Wittmer, Roland worked as a research andteaching assistant at Zurich Law School’s chair of criminal law andcriminal procedure. In 2011, Roland was on secondment with a majorlaw firm in Australia, where he served as a consultant.

Roland M RyserSchellenberg WittmerLöwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 22018021 ZürichSwitzerlandTel: (41) 44 215 52 52Email: [email protected] Website: www.swlegal.ch



WHITE COLLAR CRIME EXPERT LISTINGS

AU S T R A L I AJonathon EllisDLA PiperSydney

Jocasta GilesKing & Wood MallesonsSydney

B R A Z I LRicardo Caiado LimaCampos Mello AdvogadosSão Paulo

C ANADAGabriel QuerryMcCarthy TétraultMontréal

C H I L EIgnacio Ananías ZarorLópez Escobar Del RíoSantiago

C H I N AVivian WuFenXun PartnersBeijing

F R AN C EConstance AscioneVisconti & GrundlerParis

Alexandre BischDebevoise & PlimptonParis

Ophélia ClaudeAntonin Lévy & AssociésParis

Delphine DendievelAllen & OveryParis

Geoffroy GoubinBougartchev Moyne AssociésParis

Lisa JanaszewiczBougartchev Moyne AssociésParis

Sophie LevyClifford ChanceParis

Joris Monin de FlaugerguesAntonin Lévy & AssociésParis

Nathan MorinBougartchev Moyne AssociésParis

G E RMAN YAnna CoenenHeuking Kühn Lüer WojtekDüsseldorf

Tobias GansPWC LegalFrankfurt am Main

Christina HundNorton Rose FulbrightFrankfurt am Main

Moritz LangeFeigen · GrafFrankfurt am Main

Désirée MaierHogan LovellsMunich

Tine SchauenburgWhite & CaseBerlin

Ricarda Christine SchelzkeKlinkert RechtsanwälteFrankfurt am Main

G R E E C EAlexandros Tsagkalidis See bioANAGNOSTOPOULOSAthens

HONG KONGS A RChristine CuthbertBaker McKenzieHong Kong

Keith TamLiberty ChambersHong Kong

Leonie TearKing & Wood MallesonsHong Kong

I N DON E S I ARudy Andreas Halomoan SitorusMakarim & Taira SJakarta

I R E L A N DLouise ByrneA&L GoodbodyDublin

J A PANDaisuke FukamizuNagashima Ohno TsunematsuTokyo

N E T H E R L AN D SMadelon StevensJahae RaymakersAmsterdam

Neyah van der AaAllen & OveryAmsterdam

P E R UVirginia Del Pilar Naval LinaresCaro & AsociadosLima

P O L AN DDominika Wolf-JezierskaDLA PiperWarsaw


EXPERT LISTINGS WHITE COLLAR CRIME

P O R T UGA LInês Almeida CostaVdA Vieira de AlmeidaLisbon

Rui Costa PereiraVdA Vieira de AlmeidaLisbon

José Maria Formosinho SanchezPLMJLisbon

Dirce RentePLMJLisbon

ROMAN I AAdrian RusuEnache Pirtea & AssociatesBucharest

R U S S I AMaria KorchaginaZKS Law AttorneysMoscow

Sergey MalyukinZKS Law AttorneysMoscow

S I N G A PO R EJeremy PereiraWhithers KhattarWongSingapore

S O U T H A F R I C AFiorella Noriega del ValleHerbert Smith FreehillsJohannesburg

SW I T Z E R L A N DGeorge Ayoub See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

Philippe Vladimir BossBianchiSchwaldLausanne

Pierre Bydzovsky See bioBorel & BarbeyGeneva

Massimo ChiaseraBär & KarrerZürich

Nicolas C HerrenPestalozziGeneva

Sonja Maeder MorvantReiser AvocatsGeneva

Clara Poglia See bioSchellenberg WittmerGeneva

Roland Ryser See bioSchellenberg WittmerZürich

Daniel S WeberWenger & VieliZürich

UN I T E DK I N G DOMKaren CoppensDechertLondon

Elizabeth HeadHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

Marie KavanaghCooleyLondon

Kate MeakinHerbert Smith FreehillsLondon

Chris RobertsMayer BrownLondon

Mary YoungKingsley NapleyLondon

UN I T E D S TAT E SJohn AdamsEimer StahlChicago

Nowell D BambergerCleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonWashington DC/Hong Kong

Matthew R BoucherKobre & KimWashington DC

Melissa L FarrarGibson Dunn & CrutcherWashington DC

Jason A FiebigPaul HastingsWashington DC

Phara Serle GubermanPaul HastingsNew York

Carolyn H KendallPost & SchellPhiladelphia

Margot LaporteMiller & ChevalierWashington DC

Abena MainooCleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonNew York

Priya RoyBallard SpahrPhiladelphia

Ashley E ShapirBuchanan Ingersoll & RooneyPhiladelphia/New York/Princeton

Jason H SmithGibson Dunn & CrutcherWashington DC

Ann SultanMiller & ChevalierWashington DC

Melissa D WhitakerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldWashington DC

Rebecca A WorthingtonSquire Patton BoggsWashington DC

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