Study Group: Securities, Corporate Governance, and M&A Experts: Lawyers (EU, Africa)(?)

Marc Israel is a Partner at Macfarlanes in London. He specializes in a wide range of competition and antitrust work. Mr. Israel advises clients active in a wide variety of industry sectors, as well as a number of private equity houses. He regularly represents clients before the UK's Office of Fair Trading...

Thomas Funke is a Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law, Germany) at Osborne Clarke. He advises on all manner of regulatory law, in particular German and European antitrust/competition law, as well as the laws impacting the various regulated industries (utilities, telecoms, and the heavily regulated automotive...

Maurice Murphy is Founder and Senior Principal of TMT Legal, a Technology, Media and Telecommunications consultancy in London. He advises clients on complex commercial transactions; corporate and governance matters; and intellectual property issues, including exploitation and enforcement. With respect...

Louis B. Buchman is a Partner in the Paris office of Field Fisher Waterhouse, a European law firm, where he specializes in European antitrust law, IP, corporate law, arbitration and ADR and the listing of Financial Instruments in Paris. Mr. Buchman is also an Arbitrator and on several international...

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...

Bruno Cova is Co-Chair of the Milan office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate governance, energy matters, restructurings and complex cross-border litigation. Previously, Mr. Cova was the Chief Legal Adviser to...

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...

Thomas Rihm, PhD, is Partner with the commercial law firm of Thouvenin Rechtsanwalte in Zürich, Switzerland. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, supply distribution, financing and labor, as well as in other commercial law areas, and advising mostly foreign corporate...