Leading Experts on Legal, Economic & Regulatory Affairs

Jeff Stier is an Associate Director at the American Council on Science and Health, a public health and consumer advocacy organization dedicated to promoting sound science in public health. In this position, he is responsible for government relations, policy, legal affairs and development. Mr. Stier...

Sandi Stuart is Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Partner at Clark & Weinstock in Washington D.C. Prior to that, she spent twenty years as a legislative expert on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. Ms. Stuart was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs from 1993 to 1999....

Peter Styles is the principal consultant at Stratos European Policy in England, where he offers analytical and related consulting services to business clients with an interest in European Union policy development and regulation. He follows broad trends and inflection points across many fields of EU...

Sandra Swirski is Co-Founder of Venn Strategies, a legislative affairs and political consulting firm in Washington, DC. She advises clients on a range of legislative issues including domestic and foreign corporate tax issues, pass-through entity tax issues, individual tax issues and pension issues....

Richard Tarplin is the founder of Tarplin Strategies in Washington, DC, where he provides strategic advice and lobbying services to clients in the financial services and health care sectors. He served for almost 20 years in the US House of Representatives and US Senate and as a senior Presidential Executive...

John Taylor is a Senior Consultant at Political Intelligence covering parliamentary affairs in Scotland and Scottish Affairs at Westminster. Mr. Taylor has over twenty nine years of experience and focuses on energy, environment, social justice, health, waste management, transport, utility road works...

Craig Thorn is a Partner at DTB Associates in Washington, DC, where he focuses on issues related to the World Trade Organization (WTO), international trade negotiations, regulatory trade barriers, and biotechnology. Previously, Mr. Thorn spent over 15 years with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)...

Dr. Geza Martin Toth-Feher is the Founding Chair of Toth-Feher & Partner, a private equity legal advisory firm and also a Partner in CB Equity Partners, an investment advisory firm. Mr. Toth-Feher is admitted to practice law in Germany and in the UK. His practice focusses on M&A and private equity....

Bryan Tramont is Partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer in Washington, DC, where his areas of practice includes telecommunications law, mass media law, and administrative law. Previously, he served as Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under former Chairman Michael Powell. As...

Jose Trevino is the Principal and Founder of AmeriCompass in Mexico, where he specializes in advising foreign investors establish or expand their presence in Mexico and in providing representation before government. He has expertise in various sectors including Energy (oil & gas and electric power),...

Stephen Tupper is partner and Head of the Competition and Regulatory Group at Watson Farley & Williams in London, where he has over 20 years of relevant experience. Mr. Tupper has considerable knowledge of utilities, chemicals, consumer products, music, shipping, construction and numerous other markets...

Harm Uittien is Partner in the M&A/Corporate Law Department at the Amsterdam office of Van Doorne. Mr. Uittien has experience in cross border mergers and acquisitions, public to private transactions, equity capital markets, corporate restructurings and corporate governance issues. He acts for large...

Peter Umhofer is the Senior Director of Government Affairs at Kanner and Associates, LLC in Washington, DC, a government relations consulting firm specializing on energy and environmental policy issues, including climate change, renewable energy, clean energy tax credits, federal power policies, and...

Javier Valiente is the Country Manager at Political Intelligence Spain, a consultancy specializing in political and regulatory aspects. Mr. Valiente focuses on energy, transport and financial services issues in the Spanish Government and Parliament, working closely with the national and regional Governments...

Meena Venugopal is Resident Partner at K. R. Chawla & Co, Bangalore. She specializes in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment strategies in India, litigation before various High Courts, Alternate Dispute Resolutions, Arbitration and Conciliation, Banking...

Javier Villegas is a consultant on international trade in Mexico. Between March, 2003 and March, 2006, Mr. Villegas was the President of the Mexican Chamber of the Maritime Transportation Industry (CAMEINTRAM). The chamber represents 95 per cent of ship owners in Mexico, of which more than 60 per cent...

Alex Vogel is Partner at Mehlman, Vogel Castagnetti in Washington, DC, where he counsels the members of Congress, campaigns, corporations and trade associations on effective strategies for navigating Washington's legal and regulatory challenges....

Vin Weber is Managing Partner of Clark & Weinstock in Washington, DC, where he provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government. He has successfully advised numerous clients on matters pertaining to mergers & acquisitions,...

John Weicher, PhD, is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Housing and Financial Markets at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. Previously he served as Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), managing 3,400...

Philip J. Weiser is a Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado. Prior to his appointment, Prof. Weiser served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ), advising him primarily on telecommunications...