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Leading the World’s International Lawyers since 1878
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL
EXCHANGE (ILEX) BRIEFING TRIP AND
ASIA REGIONAL MEETING
MUMBAI, BANGALORE, & NEW DELHI, INDIA
JANUARY 4-10, 2009
Steering Committee:
Aaron Schildhaus, Chair, ABA Section of International Law, Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC Erik B. Wulff, Chair, ILEX-India Planning Committee, ABA Section of International Law, DLA Piper, Washington, DC
Lalit Bhasin, Bhasin & Partners; Bar Association of India, New Delhi, India Michael E. Burke, Williams Mullen, Washington, DC
ILEX India Planning Committee:
Enid H. Adler, Law Office of Enid H. Adler, Philadelphia, PA Vineet Aneja, Fox Mandal Little, New Delhi, India William Black, BAE Systems, Trabuco Canyon, CA
Ruchi Bhakhrisharma Robert L. Brown, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC, Louisville, KY
Manoj Chhabra, Astra Law Offices, New Delhi, India Poorvi Chothani, Lawquest, Mumbai, India
William Churchill, Dallas, TX Gaurav Dani, Indus-G & D Law, New Delhi, India Samir Kumar Das, IMAECSED, New Delhi, India
Dr. Kirty Dave, Project Services “GHAR”, Mumbai, India Anand Dayal, Koura & Company, Advocates, New Delhi, India
Dr. Nirmal Dev, Guragon, India Daun De Vore, Daun De Vore and Associates (CDM), Palm Springs, CA
Margaret Dsouza, Udwadia & Udeshi, Mumbai, India Sumati Dwivedi, Majmudar & Co. International Lawyers, Bangalore, India
Vishal Gandhi, Gandhi & Associates, Mumbai, India Jim Grandolfo, Allen & Overy LLP, Hong Kong, PRC
Rob Harrison, 241p Law Group, Munich, Germany Adarsh A. Hathi, Hathi & Associates, Washington, DC
Bruce Horowitz, Paz Horowitz Abogados, Quito, Ecuador Babatunde A. Irukera, SimmonsCooper Partners, Lagos, Nigeria
G. Kalyan Jhabakh, Surana & Surana International Attorneys, Chennai, India Dr. A. Kainth, Kainth & Associates, Bangalore, India
Suman Kalani, SVKM’s College of Law, Mumbai, India Baljit Singh Kalha, Titus & Co., Advocates, New Delhi, India
Jyoti Koliyar, SIES(Nerul) College of Arts Science and Commerce, Mumbai, India Ryan Lester, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY
Robert Lutz, Southwestern University, Los Angeles, CA Charles D. Maddox, Washington, DC
Shalini Mahay, PSA Legal Counsellors, New Delhi, India Nishant Malhotra, Titus & Co., Advocates, New Delhi, India
Susanta Malik, S.K. Malik & Associate, New Delhi, India Arti Mangla, Chicago, IL
Dinesh Mathur, Mathur & Associates, New Delhi, India Dara Mehta, Little & Co., Mumbai, India
Nirav Merchant, Majmudar & Co. International Lawyers, Mumbai, India Zia Mody, AZB & Partners, Mumbai, India
Jonnalagadda Narasimha Murthy, Advocates & Solicitors, Hyderabad India Mark Nackman, ATK Mission Systems, Baltimore, MD
Fali Sam Nariman, Bar Association of India, New Delhi, India
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Sandeep Parekh, India Securities Regulator Raja J. Patil, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC, Louisville, KY
Snehal Patil, Perksin Coie LLP, Menlo Park, CA Anjili G. Pero, American Express Company, New York, NY
VRK Reddy Lourdes Sanchez Ridge, Thorp Reed & Armstrong LLP, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Lutz, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA Rita Roy, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alejandro Sainz, Cervantes Aguilar et al, Mexico City, Mexico Cyril Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, Mumbai, India
Prabhat Shroff, Shroff & Company, Advocates, Kolkata, India Vandana Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Mumbai, India
Anetta Simpson, FoxMandal Little, Kochi, India Dr. Amar Singh, National Law University, Jodhpur, Rajstan, India
Sajai Singh, J. Sagar Associates, Bangalore, India Krishan Singhania, Singhania & Co., Mumbai, India
Vinod Surana, Surana & Surana International Attorneys, Chennai, India Priti Suri, PSA Legal Counsellors, New Delhi, India
Mo Syed, King & Ballow, Nashville, TN Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, Lang Michener LLP, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tushna Thapliyal, Khaitan & Co., Advocates, Mumbai, India Gene Theroux, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Washington, DC
B.C. Thiruvengadam, thiru & thiru Advocates, Bangalore, India Sheahan Verghese
Ajay Verma, Ajay Verman & Associates, New Delhi, India Ramon Villar, Garriques, New York, NY
Afiga Wächter, New Delhi, India
ABA Section of International Law Staff:
Christina Heid, International Projects Director, ABA Section of International Law, Washington, DC Katie Van Geem, Staff Assistant, ABA Section of International Law, Washington, DC
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Saturday, January 3: Mumbai Arrive in Mumbai and transfer to the hotel Taj President, Mumbai 90, Cuffe Parade +91 22 6665 0808 Sunday, January 4: Mumbai 1:00-6:00 pm Sightseeing Tour of Mumbai
Mumbai Named by the original inhabitants, the Kolis, after their goddess mother - “Mumbai Devi.” Bombay was once a group of seven islands given to the British as a dowry when Charles II married Catherine of Braganza. The British leased the islands to the East India Company, who in turn began initial development of the city. Today this cosmopolitan city is one of India’s most important centers for industry, commerce and foreign trade. During our city tour of Bombay, you will visit the Prince of Wales Museum, Jehangor Art Gallery the Gateway of India, and Mani Bhavan, the memorial built for Gandhi. We will also drive through Dhobi Ghat.
6:30-9:00 pm Welcome Reception and Dinner Taj President, Mumbai Assembly Hall Monday, January 5: Mumbai 8:00-9:30 am Breakfast Briefing with Elizabeth Kauffman, Deputy U.S. Taj President, Mumbai Consul General Assembly Hall
10:30 -11:45 am Meeting and tour at the Bombay Stock Exchange Bombay Stock Exchange
Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers Dalal Street
12:30-3:15 pm Lunch meeting and panel discussion with the Bombay Chamber Joss Restaurant of Commerce and Amarchand Mangaldas 30 K Dubash Marg Hosted by Amarchand Mangaldas Kalaghoda 4:00-5:30 pm Meeting and tour at the Bombay High Court Bombay High Court
7:30-10:00 pm Cocktail Reception and Dinner Meeting with the Society of Taj President, Mumbai Indian Law Firms Hosted by the Society of Indian Law Firms Tuesday, January 6: Mumbai 8:00 am Check out and depart hotel for the Securities and Exchange Board of India 9:00-11:30 am Meeting with the Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI
Bandra Kurla Complex
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch meeting with ICICI Bank ICICI Bank Towers Hosted by ICICI Bank Bandra Kurla
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1:45 pm Depart for airport 3:50 pm Jet Airways Flight 9W 447 to Bangalore 5:25 pm Arrive in Bangalore and transfer to the Lalit Ashok Bangalore The Lalit Ashok Bangalore
Kumara Krupa High Grounds +91 80 30527777
8:00-10:30 pm Dinner meeting with the Karnataka Bar Association Leadership, The Lalit Ashok Bangalore Firm senior partners; and faculty from the National Law School Chanakya Hall of India University Wednesday, January 7: Bangalore 7:30 am Breakfast meeting with industrial leaders The Lalit Ashok Bangalore Hosted by the Bar Association of India 9:30am Check out and depart hotel to Infosys 11:30 am -12:00 pm Tour of Infosys Infosys Corporate Headquarters Plot No. 44 & 97A
Electronics City, Hosur Road 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch meeting with Mr. Kris Gopalakrishna Infosys Corporate Headquarters 2:30-3:15 pm Meeting at Bangalore Mediation Centre Nyaya Degula, Siddaiah Road 3:30-4:30 pm Tour of Karnataka High Court Karnataka High Court 4:30-5:00 pm Meeting with the Chief Justice and Judges of Karnataka High Court Karnataka High Court Conference Hall of Judges 5:15 pm Depart for airport 8:45 pm Kingfisher Flight IT 208 to New Delhi 11:15 pm Arrive in New Delhi and transfer to the Lalit New Delhi The Lalit New Delhi Barakhamba Avenue, Connaught Place +91-11-44447777 Thursday, January 8: New Delhi 8:00-9:30 am Breakfast meeting with U.S. Embassy staff and U.S.-India The Lalit New Delhi Business Council Regency Room 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Meetings in New Delhi on Thursday and Friday to include (exact times not yet confirmed):
• Bar Council of India • Finance Minister • External Affairs Minister • Commerce & Industry Minister • Political Opposition Leaders
12:00-1:00 pm Meeting with the President and Executive Committee Members of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Advocates-on-Record Association Officers, and Delhi High Court Bar Association Officers
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1:30-2:15 pm Luncheon at the 5th Indo-US Economic Summit: Looking Le Méridien Hotel ahead- Consolidating Alliances 8, Windsor Place Janpath Road 2:15-4:15 pm Technical Session 6 at the 5th Indo-US Economic Summit: Looking Le Méridien Hotel ahead- Consolidating Alliances - Information and Communication Technology Indian ICT Sector – Innovative Practices Session Chairman: Dr Prasad Medury, Summit Chairperson
Why India is an attractive investment destination Keynote speaker: Mr. Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle (I) (P) Ltd
Ms Neelam Dhawan, HP
Why India is a hot KPO Hub
Keynote speaker: Mr. Raman Roy, Quatrro BPO Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Panel Discussion: Innovative Practices to overcome to the US Economic downturn Moderator Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Cyber Media (India ) Ltd
Speakers: ITes
Mr. Christopher Sinclair, Cambridge BPO Mr. Amitabh Choudhry, Infosys Mr. Ashutosh Vaidya, Wipro (invited)
Software Development Mr. Shashi Kumar, Head of Global Technologies Business Microsoft (invited)
Animation / Media Tata ELXI - Mr. Pankaj Khanpur, Head of Animation (invited)
Hardware / Semiconductor Mr Jaswinder Ahuja, Cadence Design (invited) Mr. Ganesh Guruswamy, Freescale semiconductor (invited) Private Equity / Venture capitalist Mr. Sanjeev Aggarwal, Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd Mr. Alok Mittal, Canaan
6:00-7:00 pm Valedictory Address at the 5th Indo-US Economic Summit: Looking Le Méridien Hotel ahead- Consolidating Alliances 8, Windsor Place Janpath Road Speakers: Mr. S K Jain, National President, Indo American Chamber of Commerce Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Chairman, IACC Legal Affairs Committee & Advocate, Bhasin & Co Dr K C Chakravorty, Chairman, Punjab National Bank Dr Prasad Medury, Summit Chairman & Partner, Amrop International (I)(P) Ltd Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Honorable Union Minister for External Affairs Mr. S Madhavan, Regional President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce 7:30-10:00 pm Cocktail Reception and Dinner meeting with the Bar Association of The Lalit New Delhi India, Society of Indian Law Firms and Law Firm Partners and In-House Counsel Hosted by the Bar Association of India and Society of Indian Law Firms
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Friday, January 9: New Delhi 8:00-9:30 am Breakfast meeting with the Bar Council of India, Supreme Court The Lalit New Delhi Bar Association, and Delhi Bar Association Regency Room 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Meeting with the Minister for Law & Justice 1:00-4:00 pm Meetings (see above) 4:15-5:00pm Meeting with the Chief Justice of India Supreme Court of India Tilak Marg 6:00-7:30 pm ILEX Trip Debriefing Reception The Lalit New Delhi Regency Room 8:00-10:30 pm Private Dinner for the ILEX Delegation hosted by K.K. Venugopal, Former President, Supreme Court Bar Association of India and Union Internationale des Avocats
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In Cooperation with the U.S.-India Business Council India Summit and Executive Workshop
“U.S. and India: Doing Business in Today’s Economy”
Saturday, January 10: New Delhi 8:00-9:00 am Registration and Breakfast The Oberoi Hotel New Delhi Ballroom 9:00-9:15 am Inaugural Session The Oberoi Hotel Speakers: Shishir Sharma, Partner, Dua Associates, New Delhi, India Ballroom Ashish Prasad, CEO, Discovery Services LLC; Board member, USIBC, Chicago, IL Aaron Schildhaus, Chair, ABA International; Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC 9:15-9:45 am Opening Remarks by Steven J. White, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. The Oberoi Hotel Embassy (invited) Ballroom Keynote Address by Abishek M. Singhvi, Member of Parliament Inaugural Address by H.R. Bhardwaj, Honorable Minister of Law & Justice (invited) 9:45-10:45 am Information Technology and Outsourcing: “Global Sourcing: The Oberoi Hotel Emerging Trends and Challenges” Ballroom Chair: Ashish Prasad, CEO, Discovery Services LLC, Chicago, IL Speakers: Diljeet Titus, Titus & Co. (invited) Raman Roy, Founder, Quattro Rajan Nagarajan, Chief Solutions Officer, Satyam Jyoti Sagar, J Sagar & Associates (invited) Devang Shah, Shah & Kishore 10:45-11:45 am Managing Mergers and Acquisitions The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Chair: Shardul Shroff, Managing Partner, Amarchand Mangaldas, New Delhi, India Speakers: Mohit Saraf, Partner, Luthra & Luthra Sandhya Mehta, Of Counsel, Baker Donelson, Washington, DC Sean Sovak, Partner, Light House Funds (invited) MR Prasanna, Legal Counsel, Aditya Birla Group (invited) Akil Hirani, Managing Partner, Majmudar & Co. 11:45 am - 12:00 pm Break 12:00-1:00 pm Private Equity and Venture Capital: “Search for Maximum Returns” The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Chair: Mukesh Butani, Founding Partner, BMR Associates, New Delhi, India Speakers: Ajay Mago, Associate, Mayer Brown, Chicago, IL
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Percival Billimoria, Partner, AZB Partners Aparna Viswanathan, Partner, Viswanathan & Co. Siddharth Khanna, Chairman, India Equity Fund (invited) Anand Prasad, Partner, Trilegal, New Delhi, India 1:00-2:00 pm Lunch and Keynote Address by Ashwani Kumar, Honorable The Oberoi Hotel Minister of State for Industries, Government of India 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-3:15 pm Infrastructure and Project Finance: “Paving the Way Forward” The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Chair: Speaker TBD, Deloitte Speakers: A. Viswanath, Chief Commercial Officer, GMR Group (invited) Douglas Ochs Adler, Vedder Price, Washington, DC Michael Thompson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Anil Chawla, CEO, DE Shaw Advisory (invited) 3:15-4:15 pm Anti-Corruption Issues for Transnational Corporations- Roundtable The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Chair: Aaron Schildhaus, Chair, ABA International; Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC Speakers: Bruce Horowitz, Paz Horowitz, Quito, Ecuador Erik Wulff, DLA Piper, Washington, DC Babatunde Irukera, SimmonsCooper Partners, Lagos, Nigeria Danforth Newcomb, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY Alexandra Wrage, Trace International, Annapolis, MD Shishir Sharma, Partner, Dua Associates, New Delhi, India 4:15-5:45 pm Mock Hearing in U.S. re Licensing of Foreign Lawyers The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Chair: Peter Ehrenhaft, Harkins Cunningham LLP, Washington, DC Speakers: Lalit Bhasin, Partner, Bhasin & Company Robert Lutz, Professor, Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Ashok Lallani, Baker & McKenzie, Singapore Manoj Chhabra, Astra Law Services, New Delhi 5:45-6:30 pm Special Address by Fali Nariman, Supreme Court Senior Advocate The Oberoi Hotel Ballroom Closing Remarks Speakers: Ashish Prasad, CEO, Discovery Services LLC; Board member, USIBC, Chicago, IL Aaron Schildhaus, Chair, ABA International; Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC Erik Wulff, DLA Piper, Washington, DC Lalit Bhasin, Partner, Bhasin & Company 6:30-7:30 pm Reception The Oberoi Hotel 7:30-10:00 pm Hosted Dinner (by invitation only)
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Delegation Chair:
Aaron Schildhaus Chair, ABA Section of International Law (SIL) Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus 1101 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Suite 901 Washington, DC 20037-1508 Tel: +1-202-775-4570 Fax: +1-202-478-1991 [email protected] ILEX-India Planning Committee Chair:
Erik Wulff (& Sandra Serrant) Chair, ABA SIL ILEX-India Committee DLA Piper 500 8th Street NW Washington, DC 20004-2131 Tel: +1-202-799-4271 Fax: +1-202-799-5000 [email protected] Delegation Members:
Douglas Ochs Adler Vedder Price 875 15th Street NW, Suite 725 Washington, DC 20005 Tel: 202-312-3325 Fax : 202-312-3322 [email protected] Milton A. De Jesus Milton A. De Jesus, P.A. 1123 South University Ave- Penthouse Suite Little Rock, AR 72204 Tel: +1-501-374-4244 Fax: +1-501-661-8150 [email protected] Daun Aline De Vore [New Delhi only] Daun De Vore and Associates (CDM) 1069 S. Palm Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92263 Tel: +1-760-773-2257 Fax: +1-760-671-5104 [email protected]
Peter D. Ehrenhaft Harkins Cunningham, LLP 1700 K St NW, Suite 4000 Washington, DC 20006 Tel: +1-202-973-7609 Fax: +1-202-973-7610 [email protected] James F. Grandolfo Jr. Allen & Overy LLP 9/F Three Exchange Square Central, Hong Kong Tel: +852-2974-7075 Fax: +852-2974-6999 [email protected] Bruce Horowitz (& Esperanza Suarez) Paz Horowitz, Abogados Whymper 1105 y Almagro Quito, Pichincha 000000 Ecuador Tel: +593-2-222-2057 Fax: +593-2-250-1902 [email protected]
Babatunde Irukera SimmonsCooper Partners Fortune Towers, 9th Floor 27/29 Adeyemo Alakija Street Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Tel: +234 1 4614019 [email protected] Alycia Kellman Dewey & LeBoeuf 1101 New York Ave NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20009 Tel: +1-202-346-8731 Fax: +1-202-956-3204 [email protected]
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Ashok K. Lalwani Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow 1 Temasek Avenue #27-01 Millenia Tower Singapore 039192 Tel: +65-6434-2684 Fax: +65-6337-5100 [email protected] Professor Robert E. Lutz Southwestern Law School School of Law Room BW437 675 S Westmoreland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90005-3992 Tel: +1-213-738-6758 Fax: +1-310-377-4128 [email protected] Mary Nicole Morrison (& Scott Sprabery) The Morrison Law Firm, P.C. 3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 570 Houston, TX 77098-3926 Tel: +1-713-539-8954 Fax: +1-713-527-7880 [email protected] JLN Murthy [New Delhi only] Plot No 49, St. No. 2 NMDC Colony, East Anandbagh 500047 Hyderabad India Tel: +919849004146 [email protected] Dean Kenneth Randall (& Douglas Randall) University of Alabama School of Law Box 870382 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Tel: +1-205-348-5117 Fax: +1-205-348-3917 [email protected] Fabio Alberto Regoli Jacobacci Sterpi Francetti Regoli De Haas & Associati Via Senato, 8 20121 Milan Italy Tel : +0039 0115075811 Fax : +0039 0115075318 [email protected] [email protected]
Rita Roy Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1 First Canadian Place 100 King Street West, Suite 1600 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5X 1G5 Tel: +1-416-862-7525 Fax: +1-416-862-7661 [email protected] Inderpreet Sawhney The Chugh Firm, APC 4800 Great America Parkway, Suite 310 Santa Clara, CA 95054-1227 Tel: +1-408-565-0600 Fax: +1-408-970-0200 [email protected] Neal Seth Baker & Hostetler LLP 1050 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20036 Tel: +1-202-861-1775 Fax: +1-202-861-1783 [email protected] The Honorable Sabita Singh District Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Two Center Plaza, Suite 200 Boston, MA 02108 Tel: +1-978-532-3100 x365 Fax: +1-978-532-1122 [email protected] The Honorable Sanjay T. Tailor (& Kallolini Tailor) Circuit Court of Cook County, IL 50 W. Washington, Suite 1601A Chicago, IL 60602 Tel: 312-603-5394 [email protected] Michael Thompson Attorney-at-Law 401 N. Michigan Avenue, Ste 1200 Chicago, IL 60611 Tel: +1-847-733-1803 [email protected] Bernard Vatier [New Delhi only] Vatier & Associés 12, rue d’Astorg 75008 Paris France Tel: +33 1 53 43 15 32 Fax: +33 1 53 43 15 78 [email protected]
Aaron Schildhaus Chair, ABA Section of International Law Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC
Aaron Schildhaus is an international corporate and business lawyer specializing in international corporate and commercial transactions, contracts, joint ventures, trade and finance. In addition to his expertise as a business lawyer, Mr. Schildhaus is a well-known supporter of international human rights and the “just” rule of law.
Currently, Mr. Schildhaus is Chair of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association (ABA International), having been a member of its Council since 2003.
Mr. Schildhaus is an expert on contract negotiation and international corporate strategy. His practice areas include the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and international efforts to combat anti-corruption. He speaks on these and other legal issues before lawyers, judges and academics throughout the world on a regular basis. He has written and lectured on international relations, policy, trade and investment throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Mr. Schildhaus has represented major multinational corporations, as well as small and medium-sized corporate entities and investors, based in Europe, the US and elsewhere, with respect to transnational corporate strategy, international sales and distribution, trans-border business alliances and joint ventures, and international transactions and trade in the US and abroad. He advises US and non-US entities on global corporate structuring, data protection matters in Europe, international money laundering, international anti-corruption, and US export control issues, and the design and implementation of corporate compliance programs relative to these and other areas of global business concerns.
For close to forty years, Mr. Schildhaus has worked with Europe, specializing in corporate, transactional and trade matters, and with Africa specializing in privatization, legal reform and rule of law. For over half that time, he has worked with the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and other institutions on a variety of legal reform projects, mostly in Africa, covering more than 45 of its countries, Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone. He has also worked on legal reform and business matters involving Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and countries formerly members of the USSR.
Mr. Schildhaus has particular expertise in the international representation of non-governmental organizations based within and outside of the US. In addition to assisting them with their international strategy, he advises them on the structuring of their operations beyond their home countries, and provides general legal advice on all matters concerning their international activities.
Douglas Ochs Adler Vedder Price, Washington, DC
Douglas Ochs Adler joined Vedder Price in 2008 as a member of the firm’s Equipment Finance Group. He has significant expertise in both the U.S. and abroad in the areas of project and structured finance, aviation finance and maritime finance.
Mr. Adler most recently served as Lead Counsel for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official Export Credit Agency of the United States. He provided legal advice to loan officers in the financing
of large aircraft as well as complex project finance transactions and was also instrumental in the development of derivative products for use in a wide range of financing structures.
At Ex-Im Bank, Mr. Adler was the liaison in the Office of General Counsel to Ex-Im Bank’s Transportation Division and was responsible for business development of sea and airport projects. He was the coordinator for the agency’s Task Force on Aviation Insurance Issues established immediately following the events of September 11, 2001 and represented Ex-Im Bank on the Project Finance Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
In the last five years, Mr. Adler supervised the structuring and closing of many of the more than $20 billion of aircraft financings supported by Ex-Im Bank. This includes the largest hard currency deal to take place in Pakistan ($1.4 billion order for Boeing aircraft by its flag carrier PIA). An integral component of that transaction was the adoption and implementation of
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The Cape Town Convention by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. In addition, he closed an innovative $358 million financing of 10 aircraft that was complemented by an Indian Rupee securitization. It was the largest transaction of its kind ever successfully consummated in India. In the area of project finance, he actively participated in the negotiation of multi- Export Credit Agency support for a complex private joint venture project launched in the PRC ($4.2 billion petrochemical plant in Guangdong Province). Prior to entering government service, he represented an international joint venture in the design, construction and operation of a modern container terminal in the port of Karachi. The project was financed with several currencies, including an Islamic-law compliant Pakistan Rupee component.
Since 2001, he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Washington College of Law of the American University, where he teaches project and structured finance. Mr. Adler is also a member of the Project Finance Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2001-Present) and Co-President of the Phillips Academy and Abbott Academy Regional Association in Washington, D.C. (September 2002-Present). He formerly served as the Secretary and General Counsel, and Trustee of the Lowell School (1990-1993 and 1999-2001). Milton DeJesus Law Offices of Milton A. DeJesus PA, Little Rock, AR
Milton A. DeJesus, born July 24, 1945 in Puerto Rico, married to the former Concepcion Rodriquez, has three children and three grandchildren. He came to the US as a young child, and attended Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School; graduated and passed the bar in 1976. He is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and Arkansas. After passing the bar, he practiced law in Minnesota and moved to Arkansas and has practiced law in Arkansas since 1982, expressly in immigration and federal criminal matters. He lectures frequently on immigration and his firm successfully litigated In re Tawfik, 20 I&N Dec. 166, (Interim Decision #3130, February 28, 1990 P 166), which is codified in federal regulations as a precedent decision on evidentiary issues. He is one of a handful of attorneys who combines federal criminal practice with immigration, and has handled leading federal cases in Arkansas on the representation of criminal aliens, including corporations. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association; the American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and American Society of International Law.
Peter D. Ehrenhaft Former Council Member, ABA Section of International Law Harkins Cunningham LLP, Washington, DC
Peter Ehrenhaft is a Senior Counsel at Harkins Cunningham LLP and focuses primarily on transnational transactions, such as technology transfers, the formation and dissolution of joint ventures, import relief proceedings, and export control matters. He has represented foreign governments in their negotiation of trade agreements, and both domestic and foreign clients seeking changes in U.S. law affecting international trade. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Special Counsel (Tariff Affairs) of
the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Arbitration of international contract and intellectual property disputes are also an active part of his practice.
Mr. Ehrenhaft served as one of the 12 members of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Multi-jurisdictional Practice that, in 2002, proposed far-reaching changes in the present geographic basis of lawyer regulation. He has been serving for more than 8 years on the USTR/Secretary of Commerce Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Service and Finance Industries. He has served on the Council of the American Bar Association Section of International Law for more that 20 years and was the Section’s International Legal Scholar. At the American Law Institute, he has worked on Model Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure and its current Projects on International Jurisdiction. He is a member of the International Arbitration Committee of the American Arbitration Association and has served as an arbitrator or counsel in AAA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations as well as a mediator under the programs of the District of Columbia Superior Court and DC federal District Court. He is a member of the Advisory Boards to Georgetown University’s International Law Journal and the BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University Law Schools. During the Spring of 2006 he was the “Distinguished Practitioner in Residence” at the American University Law School conducting a class in “International Business Transactions” and a seminar on “International Arbitration.” He is listed in the current Who’s Who in America, The Best Lawyers in America and the Who’s Who Legal. Mr. Ehrenhaft is fluent in German.
Mr. Ehrenhaft served as Senior Law Clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren at the United States Supreme Court and a Motions Clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Ehrenhaft received his LL.B. and M.I.A. from Columbia University Schools of Law and International Affairs in 1957, and his A.B. from Columbia University in 1954, all with honors. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and the bars of the United States Supreme Court, United
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States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Federal, Second and Third Circuits, the United States Court of International Trade.
James Grandolfo Allen & Overy LLP, Hong Kong
James Grandolfo is a partner in the International Capital Markets department at Allen & Overy in Hong Kong and he is a member of the US Law group. James has extensive experience representing issuers and investment banks in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including SEC-registered offerings, Rule 144A and Regulation S transactions, privatisations and debt repurchases including tender and exchange offers. James has closed capital markets transactions for underwriters and sovereign, quasisovereign and corporate issuers in India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
James also acts for a multitude of investors in a wide range of private equity transactions. James has advised on a number of deals in India including the State Bank of India (SBI) on the establishment of their USD 1 billion medium term note programme as well as their USD4.38 billion equity rights issue which was believed to be the second largest Indian equity offering to date. Allen & Overy was awarded “Deal of the Year 2008” by the India Business Law Journal for advising on the SBI rights issue. In India, James has also advised the underwriters on Gateway Distriparks’ USD 85 million global depositary receipt offering and on two offerings of convertible bonds and global depositary receipts in Bajaj Hindusthan, one of the largest sugar manufacturing companies in India. He has also advised the underwriters on two transactions by ICICI Bank: their USD 1 billion medium term note programme and drawdown, and their USD 785 million international equity offering.
Bruce Horowitz Vice Chair, ABA Section of International Anti-Corruption Committee, Latin America and Caribbean Committee, and Senior Advisor, U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Paz Horowitz Abogados, Quito, Ecuador
Founder and senior partner, Paz Horowitz law firm in Quito, Ecuador. Within the ABA International Section, Bruce serves as a Vice Chair of the Anti-Corruption Committee. He has chaired the International IP Rights Committee and the U.S. Lawyers Abroad Committee, and was Vice Chair of the Latin America and Caribbean Committee.
In 1989, Bruce began advising U.S. clients on working with foreign government officials under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In 1996, he began to work with Ecuadorian practitioners, accountants, corporate offices and government officials on the local effects of the FCPA. Since 2004, Bruce has been training client groups, lawyers, paralegals, law students and others in Ecuador and the USA on the theory and techniques of ethically securing rights, services and goods in government extortion situations. Since 1993, Bruce has organized and participated in eight ABA International conference programs on Anti-corruption issues, including three outside of the USA. In May 2008, he worked with the leadership of the U.S. Lawyers Abroad Committee to hold successful contemporaneous anti-public-extortion work sessions in Shanghai, New Delhi, London, Buenos Aires and Quito, using Positive Deviance methods.
Bruce has a Post-graduate Diploma in The Prevention of Public Corruption from the P. Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. In 2005, he was one of a team of instructors who taught the first Multi-disciplinary Post-Graduate Diplomate Program on this subject in Ecuador. He teaches Law School seminars on Anti-Extortion principles and techniques in Ecuador and the USA, as well as providing training seminars, workshops and advice to clients and client groups on this subject. Paz Horowitz is the Ecuador Partner Firm of TRACE International.
His publications on handling extortionist functionaries can be found at The Positive Deviance Initiative, the Negotiator Magazine; the International Assn for Contract and Commercial Management, and the ABA International U.S. Lawyers Abroad website.
Euromoney publications and Law Business Research have recognized Bruce as an international leader in Intellectual Property matters; and he has led his firm to important victories in IP litigation, as well as the first Ecuadorian Denomination of Origin (MONTECRISTI hats), the first sound-mark registration in South America (INTEL’s “spiral” sound®), and the world’s first tactile-mark registration (the Old Parr Bottle’s Crinkle-Glass Texture®).
Bruce Horowitz was born and raised in Galion, Ohio, USA. He has a B.A. in History from Brandeis University (1970), and a J.D. New York University Law School (1976). He practiced law in Alaska and Ohio, USA, before finally settling in Ecuador in 1985. He has written on Intellectual Property, on Anti-Corruption, on the enforcement of foreign judgments, and on tropical deforestation. He co-wrote and directed a film on indigenous/settler conflicts, “The Sound of Rushing Water”.
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Babatunde Irukera SimmonsCooper Partners, Lagos, Nigeria
Babatunde is a Partner in SimmonsCooper Partners. He is actively engaged in practicing in both Nigeria and the United States, representing clients in a myriad of cross-border commercial transactional and dispute resolution issues. He currently serves as advisor to the different office locations in the U.S., Europe and Nigeria on multi-jurisdictional matters and maintains an active participation in the practice in all locations. In addition, he participates fully in the federal litigation practice in the U.S. with jury trials and administrative and other non-jury trials in his portfolio of successes. He has engaged in significant appellate work and has routinely conducted oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals with reported locus classicus attributed to his argument. Some of his successes are widely cited by other attorneys and followed by other courts in other jurisdictions. He routinely represents the Nigerian Government in litigation in both Nigeria and the U.S. and in the privatization process in an advisory capacity. He is counsel to regulatory authorities such as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). He assisted in developing its regulations and capacity development. He currently represents several clients in Nigeria in litigation both before the Nigerian courts and other international tribunals like the ECOWAS court of Justice in serious issues such as disputes arising out of oil block bid rounds and compliance with local content legislation. He has been consulted by both the Nigerian Government and oil companies in respect of extra-territorial litigation under the Alien Torts Claims Statute and the liability implication for joint venture partners and possible scope of discovery. His role in cross-border issues includes representing clients in government investigations spanning sometimes 3 continents including under the FCPA. He recently represented a multi-lateral lending institution in a serious high level investigation by the Federal Government. Babatunde’s experience in this area includes representing clients under cooperating understandings with the U.S. Department of Justice and conducting compliance evaluations and monitoring as necessary. He is actively involved in the ongoing development of an anti-trust legislation and regime in Nigeria. He is actively engaged in several professional organizations including the Nigerian Bar Association, American Bar Association, (serving as Liaison between the International Section and African Bar Associations and participating as previous ILEX delegate to Africa), Washington State Bar Association, American Society of International Law; Africa Interest Group, Council on Foreign Relations and several bilateral and multilateral chambers for business and commerce. In addition to bar admissions in Nigeria and Washington State, he is admitted before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Fourth Circuits and the prestigious Federal Trial Bar. He is cited in the Who’s Who in American Law and has been profiled in the American Lawyer and Spiegel and is the recipient of several awards.
Alycia Kellman Dewey & LeBoeuf, Washington, DC
Alycia Kellman is an Associate in Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Project and Infrastructure Finance Group in Washington. She focuses her practice on international transactions, as well as on domestic energy projects and private equity financings. Ms. Kellman’s experience includes drafting financing and security agreements, conducting due diligence reviews of project documents, and managing the closings of international project financings. She acts as corporate counsel to several microfinance organizations and assists with business development in India and sub-Saharan Africa. She earned her law degree from
Georgetown University. Prior to law school, she spent two years working in Johannesburg, South Africa and obtained an M.A. in Human Rights and Democratization from the University of Witwatersrand. While at Yale University earning a B.A. in Political Science, she spent six months studying development in Bangalore, India.
Ashok K. Lawani Baker & McKenzie. Wong & Leow, Singapore
Languages: English (Native); Hindi (Fluent)
Areas of Law: Securities; Equity Capital Markets; Corporate Counseling & Gov - Public Co; Debt Capital Markets; M&A - Public
Admission: California, UNITED STATES (2001); Illinois, UNITED STATES (1989)
Education: Michigan State University (B.A.) (1984); Michigan State University (M.B.A.) (1984); University of Notre Dame (J.D.) (1989)
Professional and Association Memberships: American Bar Association; California State Bar Association
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Professor Robert E. Lutz Former Chair, ABA Section of International Law; ABA Liaison, Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar; Liaison, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Public International Law; and Co-Chair, Task Force on Legal Education and Specialist Certification
One of legal education’s foremost authorities on public and private international law, Robert Lutz has held the top posts in several of the most influential organizations in the international law community. He chaired the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association, as well as the international law sections of the Association of American Law Schools and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and was a co-founder of the California State Bar Section of International Law. He has served on arbitration panels under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and was founding chair of the Center for International Commercial Arbitration. The U.S. State Department, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, the Hong Kong Centre on Commercial Arbitration and other entities often seek his expertise as well.
Professor Lutz is the author or editor of several books as well as a myriad of chapters and articles on international business and environmental law, and has served as editor-in-chief of leading periodicals including The International Lawyer. He has been a member of the editorial advisory boards of close to a dozen international law journals, and has presented papers at scores of legal conferences and public hearings around the world.
Professor Lutz began his legal career as a judicial clerk to Chief Judge Edward Schwartz of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. He subsequently practiced law with the firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, served as deputy regional counsel of the Federal Energy Administration, directed the Institute of Coastal Law and Management at the University of Southern California, and served on the faculty of McGeorge School of Law. Professor Lutz joined Southwestern in 1978, and he has since been honored as the Irwin R. Buchalter, the Paul E. Treusch and the Justice Marshall F. McComb Professor of Law. M. Nicole Morrison The Morrison Law Firm, P.C., Houston, TX
A citizen of the U.S. and Canada and Texas native, M. Nicole Morrison exclusively practices U.S. immigration and nationality law in Houston, Texas. She earned an A.B. in comparative area studies (Asia and Africa) and economics from Duke University in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1997. She was licensed by the State Bar of Texas in May 1997. The Texas Board of Legal Specialization has certified her as a specialist in U.S. immigration and nationality law since December 2002, a distinction only about 90 Texas attorneys currently hold. She often speaks to lawyers and community groups on immigration issues and founded the immigration law clinic at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 2003. She is married to Scott Sprabery, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and is the proud mother of one cat and four dogs.
Dean Kenneth Randall University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL
Dean Randall holds four law degrees: the doctorate from Columbia University School of Law (1988), where he was the W. Bayard Cutting Jr. Fellow of International Law (1984-85); the master’s from Columbia (1985); the master’s from Yale University (1982), which he attended on a fellowship; and the J.D. from Hofstra University (1981), where he was the editor-in-chief of the Hofstra Law Review and was named the outstanding law graduate by the faculty. Dean Randall practiced law with the Wall Street firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 1982 to 1984. He joined the Alabama faculty in 1985 and was
selected by students as the outstanding faculty member (1987-88). He served as vice dean from 1989 to 1993 and as dean from 1993 to the present. Dean Randall is the author of an international law book published by Duke University Press; his articles have appeared in some of the nation’s leading law journals, including the Columbia, Texas, Minnesota, Washington University (St. Louis), Ohio State, and N.Y.U. International law reviews. He has served the American Bar Association as an inspector for the re-accreditation of more than a dozen law schools throughout the nation. Dean Randall has taught Public International Law, International Business Transactions, Constitutional Law and Private Equity / Venture Capital.
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Fabio Alberto Regoli Regoli Merani & Associati, Turin, Italy
Fabio Alberto Regoli is the managing and a founding partner of Regoli Merani & Associati. He was admitted to the Italian bar in 1994 and to the Italian Supreme Court in 2007. Mr. Regoli was educated at the University of Turin where he graduated in law magna cum laude in 1990 and lectured part time in Civil Law from 1990 to 2000 while working as a lawyer. He worked as a senior associate and then partner of a major international law practice before establishing his own law firm. He
currently practices from both the Turin and Milan offices and has extensive experience in cross border mergers and acquisitions acting for both local and overseas clients. He has acted as an independent director in listed companies. Mr. Regoli is featured as a corporate and commercial expert in the 2007 edition of European Legal Exerpts. He is an active contributing member of AIJA, and a member of the IBA and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). His achievements include being a member of the Task Force commissioned by the Paris ICC for the study of International Mergers and Acquisitions and serving a term as President of the Turin Young Lawyers Association. He is also a published author on contract law and many other business law topics. Mr. Regoli speakers Italian and English.
Rita Roy Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto, Canada
Rita Roy is a Canadian-Indian lawyer currently practicing in Toronto, Canada. She was called to the Bar in 2005 and has previous experience working in both immigration and family law. She is currently working as part of a litigation research team at a major Toronto firm and has a long standing interest in international law. She completed her final semester of law school in Brussels, Belgium where international law was among her chosen subjects, and regularly attends conferences/seminars focusing on international law. She is fluent in English, French, and Bengali and in her spare time, enjoys engaging in volunteer work and
performing Indian classical dance.
Inderpreet Sawhney The Chugh Firm, APC, Santa Clara, CA
Ms. Sawhney is the Managing Partner of the Santa Clara office of The Chugh Firm. She heads the firm’s business immigration practice and also specializes in corporate & employment law and litigation.
Ms. Sawhney is deeply involved with the South Asian legal community and is currently the President of the North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA) and on the Executive Committee of International Indian Bar Association (IIBA). Further, she is also actively involved with other organization such as TiE, SIPA, ICC and AIF to name a few.
Her involvement with SABA runs deep and she has served as the President of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of Northern California for 2005-06, Vice President in 2004-05, President of the SABA of Southern California in 2002-03. Besides SABA she has held many other posts in other organizations such as being the director of Indus Women Leaders (IWL) and a board member of Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA).
Prior to joining The Chugh Firm, Ms. Sawhney worked as an in-house counsel for ITC, Limited in Calcutta, India for five years and briefly as the Legal Adviser for Oracle Corporation in New Delhi, India. Ms. Sawhney received her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi. She received her Bachelors of Law degree also from the University of Delhi. She received her degree in Masters of Law (International Law) from Kingston University, Canada
Judge Sabita Singh District Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Sabita Singh is Associate Justice of the District Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition to serving as a trial judge, she also serves on the court’s appellate division. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Singh was an Assistant United States Attorney and Special Counsel for Criminal Civil Rights Enforcement in the Boston office where she focused on human trafficking cases. Prior to that, she was with Bingham McCutchen’s White Collar Crime and Business Regulation Group, practicing out of the Boston office. Earlier, she had served as an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex
County and as a law clerk for the Superior Court, both in Massachusetts. Judge Singh was a founding member and first
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president of the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston and a founding member and past president of the North American South Asian Bar Association.
Neal Seth Baker Hostetler LLP, Washington, DC
Neal Seth’s practice includes patent litigation and client counseling across a wide range of technologies. Mr. Seth has experience in all areas of litigation discovery, including depositions, conducting due diligence and factual investigations, working with experts, preparing motions and preparing and responding to discovery requests in Federal District Court and before the International Trade Commission. He has also drafted patentability, validity and infringement opinions.
Mr. Seth’s cases have involved diverse technical subjects. For instance, he was involved on behalf of the patentees in Eli Lilly & Co. v. Zenith Goldline Pharms., Inc., 364 F. Supp. 2d 820 (S.D. Ind. 2005), affirmed by the Federal Circuit in 471 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2006) relating to Lilly's blockbuster antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa®. In Ciba Specialty Chem. Corp. v. Hercules, Inc., 436 F. Supp. 2d 670 (D. Del. 2006), he was involved with the successful representation of the defendant in a patent infringement litigation relating to polymer technology, prevailing on summary judgment.
Mr. Seth devotes a considerable amount of time to pro bono activities, focusing primarily on family law issues such as guardianship, adoption and probate. In addition, he is involved with the leadership of the South Asian Bar Association, both on the national and local levels. He is the 2007 President of the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C. Mr. Seth was honored by the National South Asian Bar Association as a recipient of its Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.
Judge Sanjay T. Tailor Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Judge Tailor was appointed to the Circuit Court of Cook County in April 2003. He currently hears all aspects of dissolution of marriage and other domestic relations proceedings. Between 2003 and 2006, he presided over non-jury tort and contract actions, enforcement of judgment proceedings, and traffic violation proceedings.
Judge Tailor began his legal career in 1991 as an associate in the Special Litigation, Bankruptcy and Workout Group of Chapman and Cutler, representing institutional investors and creditors’ committees in
corporate bankruptcy, workout, and securities litigation. Between 1994 and 1995, he provided counsel on credit card and other bank regulatory matters as a senior attorney in the Law Department of the First National Bank of Chicago. Between 1996 and 2003, he litigated a wide range of civil matters as a Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney, including medical malpractice, commercial, constitutional, chancery, and civil rights claims in both state and federal court. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Tailor served as Deputy Supervisor of the Torts and Civil Rights section of the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Judge Tailor is an adjunct professor at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and, since 2003, has taught an advanced course in Illinois civil procedure. He has served on committees of numerous bar associations and has spoken on a wide range of legal topics, including civil procedure, supplemental proceedings, mediation, national security/civil liberties, and dissolution of marriage. He has published in both legal and scientific journals. In 2005, with funding from the Chicago Bar Foundation and legal staffing from the Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services, he initiated a help desk for pro se litigants appearing in enforcement of judgment proceedings. He is a founding member of the Indian American Bar Association of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the 2007-2008 class of Leadership Greater Chicago and member of the Chicago Lincoln Inn of Court. Judge Tailor is a cum laude graduate of Loyola Law School and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biological sciences from the University of Delaware. Judge Tailor is married and has three children.
Michael Thompson Attorney-at-Law, Chicago, IL
Michael Thompson specializes in domestic and international transactional work in the energy and nuclear power industries. He was formerly Executive Vice President and General Counsel of SBC International Development Corporation. His J.D. and M.A. in economics are from the University of Iowa, and his undergraduate degree in economics is from the University of Northern Iowa.
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Bâtonnier Bernard Vatier Vatier & Associés, Paris, France
Bernard Vatier began his career drafting legal contracts in a firm of legal counsellors specialised in corporate/commercial transactions, where he was instrumental in the creation of a litigation department once the firm was admitted to the litigation bar.
He first developed his expertise in business law, in corporate and commercial transactions as well as litigation, later adding white collar criminal law, a matter he taught at ESSEC from 1974 to 1988.
His expertise in insolvency law has lead him to handle significant cases of corporate restructuring, in which he offers his clients a true mastery of business law.
Bernard Vatier also acts in arbitration.
Elected member of the Conseil de l'Ordre of the Paris Bar in 1988, then President of that Bar (1996-1997), Bernard Vatier has continuously been actively engaged in the defence of the core values of the legal profession in his capacity as head of the French delegation to the European Bar from 1998 to 2002, then President of that Bar until December 31, 2005.
Erik B. Wulff Chair, ABA Section of International Law ILEX Committee DLA Piper, Washington, DC
Erik B. Wulff has a broad-based practice in franchising law, business law, and international business transactions and has extensive experience in all aspects of representing franchising and distribution companies, including domestic and international expansion. He has represented companies involved in the distribution of goods and services in transactions throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He is a former member of the board of directors of a New York stock
exchange-listed company, and, as president of its international division, was instrumental in developing its business abroad.
A frequent speaker on legal and business issues relating to franchising and distribution, Mr. Wulff has made numerous presentations at programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, the International Franchise Association, the International Bar Association, the Union Internationale des Avocats, and various continuing legal education programs. He has authored numerous articles on franchising matters in a number of different legal and business periodicals, including articles in the ABA Franchise Law Journal on federal legislation on franchising, the EC block exemption on vertical restraints, franchise disclosure obligations in international transactions, antitrust aspects of franchisee association activities, post-sale disclosure obligations of franchisors, and professional responsibilities of franchise lawyers. He has been listed in Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for many years. Most recently, he was named in Franchise Times’ “Legal Eagles,” as one of the top 101 franchise lawyers in the US and Canada.
He is a citizen of the Netherlands, was born in Calcutta, India, and has traveled abroad extensively.
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Established in 1878, the American Bar Association Section of International Law (“ABA International”) is the leader in the development of policy in the international arena, the promotion of the rule of law, and the education of international law practitioners. ABA International is the only ABA entity that focuses on the full range of international legal issues and is involved in a wide variety of substantive legal activities.
This ABA year marks the significant accomplishments that have shaped the 130 year-history of the Section of International Law and the rule the Section played as a founding committee in the ABA’s early years. This year we will commemorate its evolution into a Section in the early 20th century, its pivotal role in creating several sister organizations in international law, its role as counselor in the years surrounding World Wars I and II, and its leadership in the formation of today’s U.S. and international policy.
As we celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Section, we also acknowledge over 23,000 members, which include over 5,400 of its lawyer members in private practice, 1,200 in-house counsels, over 800 U.S. lawyers living abroad, and more than 1,000 non-U.S. lawyers in 90 countries. As the leading experts in international law, we serve as an indispensable network for international practitioners and provide our members with a wide range of resource, cutting-edge publications, seasonal meetings, continuing legal education, committee stand-alone teleconferences, more than 60 special interest and regional committees, listservs, an interactive website to network, exchange ideas, offer client referrals, and collaborate with others, and much more.
The Section’s purposes are to promote interest, activity, and research in international and comparative law and related areas; to further its development; to diffuse knowledge among members of the legal profession and others; to formulate professional opinion thereon; to promote professional relationships with lawyers similarly engaged in foreign countries; and to implement Goal IV of the Association—“To advance the rule of law in the world.”
To address these issues, the Section has assigned over 70+ regional and special interest committees, task forces and working groups within twelve divisions— Africa/Eurasia, Americas/Middle East, Business Regulation, Business Law I, Business Law II, Constituent, Disputes, Finance, Legal Practice, Public International Law/Treaty I, Public International Law/Treaty II, and Tax, Estate, and Individual—to closely monitor and disseminate information on domestic and international policy developments with implications for law practice.
The International Legal Exchange Program (ILEX) of ABA International was created under the proposition that a worldwide exchange of ideas and programs will lead to a heightened level of learning and understanding for all. Since 1968, this concept has motivated ILEX’s programs and allowed the creation of new projects in response to current world affairs. Through ILEX, the ABA arranges briefing trips throughout the world and facilitates entry into the United States by foreign attorneys who have been offered training by U.S. law firms.
To learn more about the Section of International Law and ILEX, please visit our website at: www.abanet.org/intlaw Upcoming Section Meetings: February 13-15, 2009 ABA Midyear Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts April 14-18, 2009 2009 Spring Meeting, Washington, DC April 27-30, 2009 International Bar Leaders Delegation to Latin America: Sao Paolo & Lima June 4-5, 2009 Joint Program with the International Bar Association, Vienna, Austria June 19-20, 2009 Joint Program with the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, Hamburg, Germany July 29-30, 2009 Leadership Retreat, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin July 31-August 2, 2009 ABA International Dates at the ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois October 27-31, 2009 2009 Fall Meeting, Miami, Florida
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