Leading Experts on Legal, Economic & Regulatory Affairs

Bill Kirchick is a Partner at Bingham McCutchen in Boston, MA. He focuses on estates, trusts and business succession planning. Bill has extensive experience in the areas of estate planning and taxation, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, probate and trust administration, and probate...

Edward D. Krenik is Senior Principal in the Government Relations, Advocacy and Strategy Section at Bracewell & Giuliani located in Washington, DC. Previously, Mr. Krenik served in the Bush Administration as Associate Administrator for congressional and intergovernmental relations at the U.S. Environmental...

Ed Kutler is President and Chief Operating Officer at Clark & Weinstock in Washington D.C. He has more than twenty years experience as a consultant in the research, development and implementation of national public policy. Before joining the firm, Mr. Kutler was a senior advisor to the speaker of the...

Ann J. LaFrance is the Coordinating Partner of the European communications law and data privacy practice for Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in London. Drawing from more than 20 years of industry experience in Europe and the Americas, Ms. LaFrance advises clients on regulation and competition law, advocacy...

Frank G. Lamancusa is Of Counsel at Bingham McCutchen in Washington, DC, where he focuses on antitrust and competition issues principally in the telecommunications industry. Previously, he served as a professional arbitrator and mediator on behalf of the International Center for Dispute Resolution,...

Nicholas Lansman is Group Managing Director at Political Intelligence, a consultancy specializing in political and regulatory aspects of information and communications technology, financial services, energy, health, and Transport. Mr. Lansman focuses on ICT & health issues in the UK Parliament, working...

Deborah Lathen is President of Lathen Consulting in Washington, DC, where she specializes in providing services to telecommunications and media companies. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of British Telecom. Previously, Ms. Lathen worked at the Federal Communications...

Robert Lavet is a Principal with Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, a Washington, DC law firm with practices in health care and education. Prior to joining Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, Mr. Lavet was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sallie Mae from 2005 until 2008 and has held various...

Dr. David Lewis is a Vice President with Manchester Trade, where he specializes in international trade and investment matters for governments, businesses, and international organizations in the Caribbean and Latin America. His areas of expertise include trade liberalization and free trade agreements...

Doug Lichtman is Professor of Law at UCLA. His areas of specialty include patent, copyright, and trademark law; telecommunications regulation; and general legal issues pertaining to technology firms and the Internet. Previously, Mr. Lichtman was a tenured professor at the University of Chicago. His...

Richard Liebeskind is Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, DC. He has represented and advised corporations in civil and criminal antitrust matters, including price fixing, business conduct, monopolization, mergers and regulatory matters. He has handled antitrust review of mergers...

Andrew Lilico is the Managing Director of Europe Economics, an economics consultancy. One of Europe’s top experts on financial regulation, he led the teams doing the European Parliament’s assessment of the impact of the Financial Services Action Plan, the European Commission’s assessment of the costs...

Eugene Lipkowitz is Of Counsel at Stevens & Lee in New York, where he focuses on antitrust, unfair competition, and related subjects. He counsels major institutions and corporations on compliance with federal and state antitrust laws concerning exclusionary behavior, mergers and acquisitions and other...

Andrew D. Lipman is Partner and Chair of the Telecommunications, Media and Technology Practice Group at Bingham McCutchen in Washington, DC. He specializes in communications law and related fields, including regulatory, transactional, litigation, legislative and land use. Mr. Lipman represents clients...

C. Michael Loftus is Partner at Slover & Loftus in Washington, DC, where he specializes in transportation and fuel matters for a clientele consisting primarily of coal-burning electric utilities. He has extensive experience in administrative litigation before state and federal administrative agencies,...

Alfonso Lopez-Ibor is the Managing Partner of Ventura Garces & Lopez-Ibor Abogados, a Spain-based law firm. He specializes in Banking Law, Finance, Corporate Finance and International, Capital Markets and Aviation Law. Mr. Lopez-Ibor is former managing partner of Allen & Overy, Madrid. He is also former...

Gregory Lyons is Partner at Wiley Rein in Washington, DC, where his practice focuses on patent enforcement/defense, due diligence and valuation. He has represented a number of corporations in a wide variety of technologies, including semiconductors, communications satellites, network interfaces, Internet...

Catriona Macdonald is the President of Linchpin Strategies in Washington, DC, which specializes in helping private businesses and grassroots organizations develop and present federal policy and legislative agendas. Ms. Macdonald has over ten years of experience in working in federal policy circles....

Duncan MacDonald is an Independent Consultant. Mr. MacDonald is currently a consultant to financial institutions, corporations, and think tanks on payments, privacy and data protection, alternate dispute resolution, bankruptcy, class action reform, antitrust, joint venture, plain language and constitutional...

Shourya Mandal is a Partner at Fox Mandal, a law firm in India. Mr. Mandal focuses on real estate law and has been named as one of the International Who's Who for Real Estate lawyers. He is a solicitor in India and is also admitted to practice in England. Mr. Mandal is currently the Regional Vice President...