Solution Providers

Expolink Europe Ltd is a leading, global whistleblowing service provider, based in Chippenham, Wiltshire. Expolink supports many of the FTSE 250, Fortune 500 and other companies around the world.

Expolink's whistleblowing hotline is based upon global best practice and legislation. The service provided is external, anonymous and multilingual and available 24/7 all year round.

Expolink has recently added an Incident Management software solution to its portfolio, offering our clients global visibility of all its corporate governance issues – an ever-important issue for all companies.

Scott Bridgen
Hotline Sales Manager
E-mail:scott.bridgen@expolink.co.uk

Expolink Europe Limited
1 Greenways Business Park
Bellinger Close
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 1BN
Tel: 01249 661 604
Fax: 01249 661 608
Web:www.expolink.co.uk

Hammarskiöld & Co is a dynamic and innovative business law firm.

The firm's lawyers have broad experience across the range of legal issues that companies can expect to confront on the Scandinavian market. Although the core of the firm's practice focuses on Swedish law, we also have substantial expertise in advising on and handling the international implications of business law issues.

Hammarskiöld & Co is a true partnership. In order to meet our clients' needs, the firm has formed a number of specialist groups focusing on different practice areas. At the same time, the full resources of the firm are always available to clients to ensure that their needs are met with optimum efficiency.

Our focus areas are mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, litigation and arbitration, intellectual property, technology, media and telecoms, and EU and competition law.

Hays Legal provides an integrated recruitment solution to the UK’s Legal and Company Secretarial sectors. Working across a nationwide network of offices, we offer employers and jobseekers a highly specialised recruitment service for permanent and interim positions across all business sectors, skill sets and levels of seniority.

We have a proven track record spanning almost 20 years in all areas of Legal and Company Secretarial recruitment, from one-off contingency requirements through to large-scale recruitment campaigns and wider employee management solutions. We offer confidential, expert advice on job opportunities, compensation, business plans and exit strategies pertinent to professionals considering a move. We have the ear of key decision makers across all our clients and we have been instrumental in introducing and placing hundreds of fee earners and company secretaries into a vast array of organisations.

If an organisation has strategic growth plans or needs incisive market analysis, we are often consulted as a first point of contact. From blue chip corporates, national and international firms through to niche practices, we cover the vast majority of the legal and company secretariat market.

For professional advice on your recruitment needs or to find out more about currently available jobs visit www.hays.co.uk/legal or contact us on infolegal@hays.com.

We are pre-eminent in dispute resolution and have an outstanding reputation for high-value transactional advice. Our main clients are prominent global and national businesses that we serve from a network of offices in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Alongside our reputation in dispute resolution and corporate, we have leading practices in finance, real estate, competition, tax and employment, pensions and incentives. We are also acknowledged as leaders in a number of industry sectors, including the energy and natural resources and financial institutions sectors. The breadth of our practice, our technical and commercial expertise and the consistently high quality of our broader service are all factors cited by our clients when they choose Herbert Smith to advise them on their most complex disputes, transactions and projects.

We increasingly use ADR procedures and a number of our partners are accredited mediators. Our unique in-house advocacy unit provides a number of benefits for clients, including ease of instruction and reduction in cost. Our new disputes office in Belfast, which is focused on the document review often found in major contentious cases, enables us to offer clients an attractive combination of quality, efficiency and pricing.

Some lawyering requires exceptional skills and deserves high pay. Other work is bulk and can be done by trainees or “non firms”. We do not stick to the stiff rate principle: flat or capped rates or charges for a team by the week or the month are fine for us too.

At HOLTROP S.L.P Transaction & Business Law we prefer to focus on the complex work, and we do this work ourselves. We like life on the front lines. When you lose that perspective, it’s that much harder to understand what your client is doing. We don’t employ junior lawyers and always stay on the job ourselves.

Availability, and personable service are key to our business. We are passionate about the content of our work, for that reason we chose to be a small and focused firm. Transaction and business law in the Energy and ICT sector is our best dish, but you can have it a la carte: as long as you feel that it requires swift and creative thinking we may be the lawyers you are looking for.

We are team of 6 Lawyers, our office is located at the heart of the Barcelona business district.

HUDSON IS ONE OF THE EUROPE'S LEADING LEGAL & COMPLIANCE RECRUITERS

In-house

Our In-house team, servicing both the commerce & industry and financial services markets, is one of the largest in the market. Our consultants have the depth of knowledge you would expect from sector specialists with a number of years of experience in their industry. The team has developed an unparalleled network of clients and candidates within their areas of specialism, providing search and contingency services for mid to senior permanent and interim instructions. Areas of particular expertise include Life Sciences / Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Infrastructure, Construction, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, FMCG and TMT.

Our Associates team, consisting of legally qualified consultants, is unique in the UK market in that it has the coverage and resources of a major recruiter combined with the search methodology and depth of market knowledge more often associated with boutique search firms.

Partners

Our Partner team is a market leading consultancy facilitating individual partner moves, team moves and firm mergers. The team consists of partner specialists with over 10 years' experience of brokering deals at the highest level in the practice market.

Projects

Hudson Legal is a leading supplier of turnkey document review and e-Discovery solutions in the UK and in Europe. We work with leading corporations and financial services institutions, partnering with top UK, US and international firms.

Inmarkets is a leading e-learning innovator with a strong focus on helping our clients to tackle governance, risk and compliance issues. Over 200 companies with over a million employees trust us to implement their most critical and complex learning and strategic communication initiatives.

We partner with our clients at every stage of the process, from risk assessment through to audit, while personalising the approach to the needs of the organisation. Some clients retain us to develop fully bespoke content and use our fully managed Skillcast Portal to deliver it to their audience, while others use our Skillcast Author platform to develop and deliver the communications themselves with our support.

We've pioneered innovation in the areas of collaborative content development, multi-lingual portals, diagnostic assessment reports, and the use of learning cloud to deliver GRC objectives at a substantially lower cost and time to fulfilment.

With our 13 year pedigree, we have seen in the past two years an undeniable focus from our clients on the UK Bribery Act. We have worked closely with leading names in the anti-corruption field to ensure all of our clients receive premium advice in their courses. Notably, we partnered with Transparency International and FTI Consulting to create the benchmark anti-bribery course “Doing Business Without Bribery”.

Interactive Dialogues was founded in 1998 and now serves a wide range of pan-European and global clients. Our technical development and client support team is based in Guildford, UK and the sales, marketing and administration team is based near Brussels in Belgium.

We believe that our coordinated approach to corporate communications and compliance helps to improve the continuous dialogue with employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders. This coordinated approach can also save considerable amounts of money by rationalising many different tool sets onto a single integrated communications platform. Communicating effectively is a vital component in achieving legal compliance. Interactive Dialogues supplies a single solution that provides on-line corporate communications and compliance services throughout your organisation.

Jamin Consulting specialises in partnering with organisations to take them from the first embryonic steps of server virtualisation, through to virtualisation of their data centre and on to cloud computing. We have expertise in designing and delivering both cloud architectures and cloud service delivery models. We help our clients achieve the full benefits that cloud computing brings to the table by using industry proven design principles and a wealth of real world experience. Jamin Consulting is looking to drive real value from "Cloud Computing" for its customers by providing clear and concise guidance on industry best practice and helping its customers to understand where cloud computing can take their business.

Philipp Buis, Partner at Jauch Associates AG, has a business administration degree and has thirteen years of experience in Executive Search. He placed more than 150 senior executives and top specialist for large cap Multinationals, international niche players and local companies.

Philipp is a specialist in Legal and has successfully conducted numerous search assignments for Corporate and Group Legal positions in various industries, focusing on M&A, Capital Markets, IP, Life Sciences and General Corporate & Commercial Matters.

Jones Davey is an independent legal search consultancy specialising in the placements of partners, lawyers and teams across the UK and Asia.

We provide specialist solutions for a range of clients from leading regional organisations, boutiques to leading UK and US Firms. Over many years we have developed intimate relationships and contacts which give us the knowledge, resources and experience to know which button to press, when and how hard.

Executive search is today regarded as central to the business planning of organisations all over the world, regardless of size, location or industry. It is recognised as the singularly most effective tool to identify, qualify, attract and retain the key individuals that will help deliver your combined business goals.

We also appreciate that the Legal sector is uniquely different from any other and therefore to truly understand the career aspirations of those in the field as well as the organisations that hire them - a consultant must have the experience and in depth market knowledge of that industry. Our role is to carry your message to market in the most effective and accurate way, ensuring that you have a choice of qualified individuals that meet and exceed the needs of the role and Firm. By being completely focused on our information systems, networks, search and qualification process were perfectly aligned with our target markets

With 38 offices in 17 countries worldwide, Jones Day ranks among the world’s largest and most geographically diverse law firms, with a fully networked and balanced presence in the world’s major economic and financial centres.

London is an integral part of the global Firm, with around 200 fee earners in our office in the City of London. Our London lawyers have extensive UK and international experience.

London is at the centre of the Firm's extensive European network which also includes offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich and Paris and in aggregate comprises more than 400 lawyers. Principal areas of work in London include M&A, capital markets, private equity, banking and finance, business restructuring, investment funds, litigation, intellectual property, tax, real estate and competition. We also have teams of lawyers experienced in areas such as competition, environmental, employment and pensions law.

KARDARAS & KELLEHER LLP is a full-service boutique law firm committed to providing its clients with high quality legal representation on a cost-effective basis. The Firm specializes in defending foreign and multi-national companies being sued in the United States in all areas of litigation with an emphasis on products liability, toxic torts, pharmaceuticals and maritime matters. The Firm has established a reputation for dealing successfully with complex and multi-district litigation as well as more elementary litigation disputes.

The Firm takes pride that we treat each case and each client individually and endeavor to provide the best solution available given the specific nature of the case and the legal issues involved. This may sometimes involve innovative ideas and unique methods of resolving legal disputes. We never use a "formula" approach to our cases. We believe that this philosophy best serves our clients’ diverse needs. Over the years, our success in handling some of the most difficult and unconventional matters on behalf of our clients has become our trademark.

Kellerhals Attorneys at Law is one of the most well-known litigation firms in Switzerland with seventy professionals in Zurich, Berne and Basel. The attorneys of the litigation team represent clients in proceedings before all courts in all Swiss Cantons and all instances, including the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne. Our personal resources allow us to build teams of professionals best suited to each case. Our clients always have the same attorney or the same team working on their cases and the partner in charge is aware of the current status of the case, including essential details of the dispute.

The dispute resolution of Kellerhals Attorneys at Law had some high scale cases in the last few years, including successful representations respectively defenses in huge fraud litigations, in large Swiss insolvency proceedings, in major product liability litigations, in worldwide trust ligitations, various international arbitrations and joint venture disputes. Kellerhals Attorneys at Law has been awarded with the Swiss Law firm of the year 2011.

Besides dispute resolution Kellerhals Attorneys at Law has particular experience in the following practice areas: Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions, Construction Law, Public Submission law, Bankruptcy Law, Tax issues, Technology Law, Trust Law, Leasing Law and Art Law. Depending on the needs of your case, our dispute resolutions professionals work with or draw advice from specialists of these practice areas.

Celebrating more than 125 years of service, King & Spalding is a full-service international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm also represents hundreds of clients with new ventures and mid-sized companies in emerging industries.

Long-standing client relationships are one of the surest barometers of a law firm’s success in meeting its clients’ needs for legal services. King & Spalding lawyers pride themselves on developing continuing client relationships that are productive, professional and collegial. The firm is one of only 52 law firms that have been on the BTI Client Service A-Team for 11 consecutive years—representing only 8% of the law firms serving the Fortune 1000.

The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, its uncompromising commitment to quality and its dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients.

Lakatos, Köves and Partners Ügyvédi Iroda is a leading independent law firm in Hungary, combining independence with extensive international experience and deep knowledge of its local market. The firm has deep experience of a transitional economy and was involved in most of Hungary's ground-breaking transactions during the transformation and the development of the Hungarian economy over the last 20 years. From 1993 until 2009 the firm was a part of Clifford Chance and now maintains a “Best Friends” agreement with Clifford Chance. In recent years the firm has been heavily involved in infrastructure development, and the developments in the main privatized and regulated sectors such as telecoms, energy and financial services, and in key restructurings. The firm was listed among the “Best of Hungary” By Chambers Europe in 2011.

Practice areas: Banking and Finance, Project Finance; Corporate / M&A; Labour law; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Regulatory & Compliance, Real Estate; Tax; Capital Markets; IP; Competition; Public Procurement.

Founded in 1934, Latham & Watkins has grown into a full-service international powerhouse with approximately 2,000 attorneys in 31 offices around the world. The founders instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm's dramatic growth into one of the world's premier business law firms. With that growth, we have built internationally recognised practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. We have also received praise for our innovative approach to law firm management and for our pro bono work. Our success is grounded in our devotion to the collaborative process, which reaches across global offices and practices and draws upon our deep subject matter expertise, an abiding commitment to teamwork and a powerful tradition of creative lawyering.

Our highly regarded Corporate Department has an international client base ranging from large multinational corporations to closely held emerging companies. Our transactional prowess is evidenced by our consistent rankings in league tables and surveys around the globe, Latham received 26 Top 10 rankings, the most of any law firm, in The American Lawyer 2011 Corporate Scorecard for its M&A, private equity and capital markets practices.

LexisNexis® combines the heritage of Butterworths and Tolley®, the proven content and global technology expertise of LexisNexis® Enterprise Solutions, to enable professionals in law, tax & accounting, corporations, public sector, academic institutions, and in risk and compliance to dig deeper, search further, work smarter and innovate faster.

Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. We use our expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world. We build lasting relationships that endure through business cycles to ensure that the world's leading companies, financial institutions and governments instinctively turn to us for support on their most important and challenging assignments. Our focus is on consistently delivering integrated, global solutions, built on our strong local capability, helping our clients to achieve their objectives by solving their most complex and important legal issues.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft is one of the top addresses among German commercial law firms. From our 12 German offices and 6 international offices, our lawyers and tax advisors advise their clients both in legal disputes and in organisational issues. We focus on providing efficient and far-sighted advice which leads to the desired commercial results. This, together with the sensible allocation of time and personnel resources, provides the basis for our innovative advice.

Luther provides legal and tax advice in all areas relevant to companies, investors and the public sector. Knowledge of the market in which our clients are active is a prerequisite for providing successful advice. That's why our lawyers and tax advisors, in addition to their specialised legal knowledge, also advise clients from specific business sectors.

Our approach is interdisciplinary. Legal and tax issues are in our opinion often closely linked, and long-term commercial and financial implications should not be overlooked either. We benefit from the close working relationship between our lawyers and our tax advisors as well as from years of experience working with business consultants, accountants and bankers.

Furthermore, we are the German member firm of Taxand, a worldwide organisation of independent tax advisory firms. More than 2,000 tax specialists from approx. 50 countries are presently part of the Taxand network.

Mitratech provides market-leading Collaborative Accountability Applications for businesses and their trusted partners. With team-oriented domain applications in legal process automation, governance, risk, compliance and security, Mitratech’s TeamConnect Collaborative Accountability Suite improves transparency of financial reporting, reduces exposure to risk, and boosts operating discipline, information security and the efficiency of enterprise processes. The company’s Collaborati browser application also meets the accountability and collaboration needs of proliferating extraprise teams, wherein vendors, partners and service providers often have to be included in sensitive teamwork projects such as electronic billing, legal hold and collaborative budgeting, or those which expose businesses to liability.

Neural IT founded in 2004, is a prominent organization in the field of Legal Outsourcing and Legal Software Applications.

Our Core Values are Customer Delight, Employee Growth, Innovation & Self Improvement.

Our Web Based highly scalable customized software seamlessly manages the workflow, documents, scanning, financials, reporting and lots of automation.

Our Services are managed by highly trained individuals with an eye for detail and precision handling of work with a clear focus to meet timelines.

We are a one stop shop for any high volume Law Firm or a Collection Agency looking for a trusted partner with expertise in Legal, Paralegal, Customer Support & IT Delivery.

Partnering with Neural IT not only changes the entire dynamics of your business but it gives you the edge to perform at the highest levels creating sustainable value for your customers and shareholders.

Described by Banco Espirito Santo as having “created a document management and interrogation platform capable of assessing large volumes of interconnected documents”, NSS transforms the landscape for corporate legal services. Pursuing a philosophy of, "simplicity is added value", NSS uses technology to facilitate legal processes.

The client gains from NSS include (i) costs savings of up to 50% on dcoument review and due diligence exercises; (ii) consistency and rigour; (iii) on-line contractual business intelligence; (iv) improved risk management; and (v) virtual data room capability – all in a massively scalable solution

NSS’ clients include; corporates, banks, private equity and soon other law firms. Clients use NSS initially for large scale review or transactional due diligence and then to keep their secure contract store up to date, pro-actively notifiy key events, and ensure the associated dynamic on-line schedules of derived data are immediately availble for management decision support.

All information is kept up-to-date and made available as vendor due diligence "on demand". All contracts are available for detailed human and/or system interrogation to cope with new prcedents or regulations which may impact risk or exposure.

Finally a virtual data room capability ensure sale, acquisition or investment opportunities can be pursued within hours.

PANETTA & ASSOCIATI Studio Legale together with offering specialized assistance to companies and groups, has acquired significant experience in the so-called new markets: such as energy, environment, renewable and telecommunications, media, technology. PANETTA & ASSOCIATI are recognized leaders in providing assistance in Privacy and Personal Data protection and Cloud Computing.

In 2011, Rocco Panetta, P&A Managing Partner, has been ranked amongst leaders in the TMT market by Chambers Europe.

The Firm offers assistance to clients operating in diverse levels on the energy panorama with reference to both corporate profiles, civil and commercial, and for the regulatory and administrative, as well as in contentious administrative and civil cases.

Participation in important merger and acquisition operations allows PANETTA & ASSOCIATI to offer consultancy in energy and environmental law, included in the case of legal due diligence and compliance to environmental laws. Our professionals assist clients in all phases of the development of renewable projects. From the project authorization phase (wind farm, photovoltaic, hydroelectric and biomass) to drafting and negotiations of financial documents connected to financial operations based on project finance.

PANETTA & ASSOCIATI offer 360 degree assistance in matters of privacy and data protection. The lawyers have acquired significant and noteworthy experience in the field, having followed the evolution of this matter since its beginnings in the nineties.

In the TMT field, PANETTA & ASSOCIATI are considered among the leading protagonists in assistance to enterprises in the sector, with reference to both fixed and mobile telephones, as well as with regards to the Internet, Media, E-commerce, IP-IT, including the Cloud computing.

Services offered: General Corporate; Commercial Contracts; M&A; Regulatory and Compliance; Litigation

Intelligent investigations

Proven is a leading global investigations firm that provides support to litigation and dispute resolution teams engaged in complex, high value multi-jurisdictional cases. Our particular expertise lies in investigating and resolving issues stemming from cross-border fraud, asset misappropriation, money laundering and corruption. Our clients include multinational corporations, law firms, investment banks, family offices and private clients.

Operating out of London and New York, the team combines experienced individuals from the worlds of litigation, arbitration, mediation, investigations, law enforcement, industry, strategic intelligence, security and cyber investigations. As part of the Good Governance Group, a leading emerging markets and independent strategic advisory firm, Proven has access to an established and extensive global network of trusted sources, bringing a unique dimension to its investigative capabilities.

QuisLex is a premier litigation and corporate support services provider to Global 500 corporations and Am Law 10, Am Law 25, Global 100 and Magic Circle law firms. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago and San Diego, QuisLex provides its services to its worldwide client base from its state-of-the-art, 24/7 secure execution centers in India, and its onshore review facility. QuisLex has grown organically over the past seven+ years from 3 employees to over 500, entirely due to repeat work and references from clients. QuisLex is led by seasoned U.S. attorneys with decades of cumulative experience with international law firms such as Skadden Arps, Sidley Austin and Shearman & Sterling, and Fortune 500 companies. QuisLex is certified ISO 9001:2008 compliant for its proprietary quality management system and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 compliant for its information security management system. QuisLex is a SAS 70 Type II entity, HIPAA compliant and is also EU Safe Harbor self-certified. For more information on QuisLex, please visit www.QuisLex.com.

Sabev & Partners is a private partnership established in 1998 and aimed at serving the business activities of local and international companies. The law firm’s practice is focused on continuous and comprehensive legal service to corporate clients. This covers corporate matters (including winding up and insolvency procedures), mergers and acquisitions, corporate and business restructuring, public companies and securities, intellectual property, competition, taxation issues, representation in litigation and arbitration proceedings.

Currently, Sabev & Partners advises on a long-term basis more than 30 corporate clients from various industries, such as production and trade in pharmaceuticals, non-ferrous metals, engineering, packaging industry, public transportation, real estate and construction, commercial properties and golf resorts development, IT and electronic payment systems, corporate and personal finance, etc. In addition, the law firm has started providing services to clients in the gambling and renewable energy industries.

Sabev & Partners is also often engaged by and provides services to the benefit of Bulgarian state institutions: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Transport, Financial Supervision Commission, Privatisation and Post-Privatisation Control Agency. In many of these cases Sabev & Partners’ lawyers have been appointed under EU or USAID funded programmes, of which the respective state institutions are beneficiaries.

Serengeti is the most widely used and highly-rated legal e-billing and project management system in the US. It is now being introduced to the corporate legal market in the UK since being acquired by Thomson Reuters in October 2010. Serengeti simplifies the collection and organisation of information used by legal teams and allows in-house counsel to monitor developing areas of activity, track budgets, create reports, and select the best outside counsel for new work based upon performance. The result is a system that helps corporate legal professionals control legal spending while saving significant time and money. For more information, go to www.serengetilaw.com.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is one of the UK's leading law firms, with an uncompromising commitment to their clients and quality at the heart of everything they do. From offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Aberdeen, Shepherd and Wedderburn deliver specialist legal advice to commercial, public sector and private clients throughout the UK and overseas.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s clients are drawn from a range of industries, with particular expertise and focus is in providing pragmatic, commercial advice in the energy and natural resources, financial and real estate and infrastructure sectors. With 57 partners and around 350 staff, they have the expertise, experience and resources to meet their clients’ needs.

Its impressive and expanding client base includes large, well-known organisations, small and medium-sized enterprises, public sector agencies and high-net-worth individuals. Shepherd and Wedderburn provides its clients with a full range of legal services, including charities, commercial dispute resolution, construction and special projects, corporate, corporate tax, debt recovery, economic regulation, employee share incentives, employment, EU and competition, finance and restructuring, intellectual property, pensions, planning and environment, PPP, private client, professional regulation, professional negligence, property, public law and technology, media and telecoms.

To find out more about Shepherd and Wedderburn visit www.shepwedd.co.uk.

Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with more than 700 legal staff in 18 offices situated in key business and financial centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We believe it is who we are and how we approach our work that sets us apart from other firms. We set the highest standards for the work we do and pride ourselves on our client focus.

In building our international business, we have created a closely knit and cohesive network of lawyers who seek to balance local business needs with the delivery of a global service. Our client base encompasses 40% of the Fortune Global 500 and more than half of the current FTSE 100 companies. We work across core practice areas including corporate, dispute resolution, EU, competition & regulatory, employment, pensions & employee benefits, financial markets, intellectual property, projects, real estate, information, communications & technology and corporate tax.

A key commercial advantage for our clients is our focus on specific sectors, including energy & infrastructure, financial institutions, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) and life sciences.

Sovereign Partners was established in 2004 as a law firm aimed at providing bespoke client services founded on the principle of providing excellent and personalized legal services at affordable rates.

The firm specializes in providing legal services in the areas of corporate finance, project finance, foreign investments, banking, international trade, telecommunications oil and gas services industry (upstream and downstream), the real estate development, construction, mining and manufacturing industry.

The firm provides excellent commercial litigation services where required for its clients and is also quite adept at the provision of company secretarial services.

Streamsowers & Köhn is a Nigerian firm of Barristers and Solicitors with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. The Firm was founded by Mr. Etigwe Uwa, Mr. Hilary-Nwokonko (Managing Partner) and Mr. Kemela Okara.

Our Partners and Associates are actively engaged in rendering advice on and acting in a broad spectrum of legal issues from our practice areas including Dispute Resolution, Energy and Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Privatisation, Corporate and Commercial and the innovative Legal Oversight and Related Governmental Activities Practice Group (LORGAP). We also provide bespoke legal service with emphasis on case-specific solutions to our clients.

Our hallmark is to exceed our clients’ expectations through robust competence and a high level of responsiveness.

Stroz Friedberg is a leading global digital risk management and investigations firm. The company specialises in digital forensics, data breach and cybercrime response, electronic disclosure, and business intelligence and investigations. Working at the crossroads of technology, law and behavioural science, the company provides technical assistance and strategic advice to help manage the inherent risks and responsibilities of doing business in a digital era. Learn more about the firm’s capabilities and experience at www.strozfriedberg.com.

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organisation. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Van Bael & Bellis is a leading independent law firm based in Brussels, with a second office in Geneva dedicated to WTO matters.

We focus on providing the highest quality legal services in the areas of EU competition law, EU and international trade law, EU regulatory law including data protection, consumer protection and environmental law, as well as Belgian business law.

With its international, inter-disciplinary team of over 60 lawyers from more than 15 countries, Van Bael & Bellis advises a global client base comprising multinational companies, governments and international trade associations, as well as a broad spectrum of domestic Belgian enterprises.

Trusted by more than 5,400 institutions in over 150 countries, including 49 of the world’s top 50 banks, World-Check offers an end-to-end solution for assessing, managing and remediating financial, regulatory and reputational risks.

World-Check’s global database of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and heightened risk individuals and entities, due diligence reports, passport verification and country risk assessment tools provide the means to address the full spectrum of risk across all markets and industries.

Represented across five continents, World-Check’s international research team monitors emerging risks in more than 50 languages, covering over 240 countries and territories worldwide.

For more information visit www.world-check.com