Leading Experts on Legal, Economic & Regulatory Affairs

Jeffrey B. Aaronson is Partner in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Department at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd located in Chicago, Illinois. He concentrates his practice in white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions, antitrust investigations, litigation, counseling, corporate internal investigations...

Kathleen Q. Abernathy is the Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC, where she advises clients on a wide variety of policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fields. Previously, she served as Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)....

Martin Alpert is a Litigation Management Consultant at Alpert & Associates, a consulting firm, analyzing Mass Tort, M & A's, Class Actions, & Commercial transactions involving fortune 500 & over 2,500 select companies. He also works at Cambridge Integrated as a National Claim Director & was Claim...

Francisco Ascui is a Director of Climate Managers, an international energy and climate change consultancy. He has specializes in the energy and climate change field since 1997. Mr. Ascui worked as a Civil Servant in sustainable energy policy and gas sector regulation for the Government of New South...

Bertold Bar-Bouyssiere is Partner at DLA Piper in Brussels, Belgium, where he practices in the fields of antitrust and competition law. He specializes in EC and German competition law, including merger control, horizontal and vertical restraints, state aid and public procurement. Dr. Bär-Bouyssière...

Stephen A. Bent is Partner and co-leader of the Life Sciences Industry Team at Foley & Lardner in Washington, DC. He is also a member of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice Group and the Health Care and Nanotechnology Industry Teams. Mr. Bent specializes on the legal issues associated with biotechnology...

Mark N. Berman is a Partner in the Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice Group and supports the Securitization and Structured Finance Team, the Leveraged Finance Team and the Public Finance Group at Nixon Peabody in Boston, Massachusetts. Over his more than 30 year career, Mr. Berman has represented...

Mitchell H. Bernstein is a Partner at Van Ness Feldman in Washington, DC. Mr. Bernstein's practice focuses on matters arising under federal environmental statutes. He represents clients before regulatory authorities in both formal and informal contexts, and defends them in administrative and judicial...

Richard N. Block, PhD, is Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. His research centers on issues related to union administration; the relationship between industrial relations law and practice; labor arbitration; government sponsored training programs;...

Stefan Bretthauer is a partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Bretthauer specializes in antitrust law, including distribution law; hospitals mergers, energy law, and franchise law. He has worked in the antitrust department of a major US law firm in Washington, DC and in the legal...

François Brouxel is Partner at Wildgen in Luxembourg, where his field of activity includes corporate law as well as financial law. Mr. Brouxel is regularly involved in dossiers dealing with merger-acquisitions, banking and insurance advisory services, estate planning and contentious business matters....

Sanford M. Brown is the Managing Partner of Bracewell & Giuliani’s offices in Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas. He specializes in the representation of financial institutions specialty finance companies in matters involving state and federal laws and regulations. Mr. Brown also provides counsel to financial...

Mark Brzezinski is a Partner and manages the international practice at McGuireWoods in Washington, DC. He focuses his practice on international trade policy, cross-border transactions, energy and public utilities, and international government relations. Mr. Brzezinski has considerable experience with...

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...

Thomas H. Campbell is a Partner at the law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix. His practice is concentrated in the areas of telecommunications, energy, water and utility regulation. Mr. Campbell regularly represents parties in rate, CC&N, merger, acquisition and financing applications, tariff filings,...

William Clyburn, Jr. is the former Vice Chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB), where he rendered decisions regarding rail rate reasonableness cases, mergers and acquisitions, and where he testified before Congress with respect to economic regulation of the railroads. Commissioner Clyburn also...

Leonard L. Coburn is the President of Coburn International Energy in Washington, DC, where he focuses on international energy issues with a concentration on Russia, Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Middle East. He specializes on oil, gas, political risk, and geopolitics. Previously, Mr. Coburn was a Director...

Carol Connor Cohen is a Partner and Chair of the ERISA litigation practice of Arent Fox in Washington, DC. Ms. Cohen concentrates on ERISA, bankruptcy, appellate and employment litigation. She defends employers, fiduciaries and employee benefit plans in ERISA litigation involving claims with respect...

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...

Gertjan de Jong is a Director at Kade 12 Consultants, a Netherlands-based independent consulting firm. He has also an in-house role at Econcern in setting up their corporate finance department to help them achieving their goal of becoming the leading independent renewable energy company in Europe. Mr....