Meet the Speakers:

Vivienne Artz is a Managing Director and Head of International for the IP and O&T Law Group at Citigroup. Citigroup is a global diversified financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products. Citi has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Vivienne’s role includes responsibility for all legal aspects of intellectual property, technology, data privacy and data security, electronic trading and order routing, and market data issues, across all businesses in the EMEA and APAC regions. Vivienne chairs the AFME Data Protection Working Group and is an active participant on the E-Commerce Group and the Data Protection Groups at the BBA and CBI, as well as a Committee member for the Technology Discussion Group.

Robert O’Brien is Managing Director for Metacompliance, a fast growing UK software company. Metacompliance automates policy management by reducing risk and audit problems by using policy management to create legally valid proof of employees having seen, understood and agreed to policies and surveys.

Robert has founded a number of Technology companies. For the ten years prior to Metacompliance he developed Intertech Limited into very successful Citrix Platinum reseller, before selling the company to Maxima PLC in 2006.

He has a keen interest in Cyber Security and the changing role of technology in people’s daily lives and behaviours. The blurring of the lines between technology being a business tool or a toy is an area of particular focus.

Robert was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in 2001. He is passionate about the need for a UK based software sector, particularly in the area of IT Security and Cloud.

Graduated in law from the University of Ghent, Patrick Baeten started his career in 1993 at the Brussels’ bar after obtaining an LLM degree in European and International law from the Université de Louvain. He joined Tractebel (SUEZ group) in 1996 ; Patrick now serves as General Counsel for GDF SUEZ Energy Europe, heading a team of more than 130 lawyers spread over 10 different countries.

Patrick gained extensive legal experience in the electricity and gas business. Recent high profile cases he was involved in include : the merger between Gaz de France and Suez and the divestments of Distrigaz, SPE and Fluxys following that merger; the swap deal with E.On for electricity generation units and drawing rights in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium, valued at €4.5B; the negotiations with the Belgian Federal Government on the lifetime extension of the nuclear power generation units; the ICSID arbitration proceedings against Hungary and Slovakia.

Patrick regularly speaks at conferences; he’s an active member of the Belgian Institute of Company Lawyers, where he teaches deontology and is part of the Legal Management Expert Panel. Under his tenure, the GDF SUEZ Belgian legal department won the Belgian Legal Award 2012 for Most Innovative Legal Department.

James was appointed General Counsel of EE (previously Everything Everywhere), the merged company of Orange and T-Mobile, in July 2010, and was previously General Counsel of T-Mobile UK for 6 years.

He is responsible for Legal, Regulatory and Government Liaison, with a total staff of around 90 people. James is Company Secretary to the Board and Chair of the Risk & Compliance Board. James has an MA & M.Phil from Cambridge University and is a solicitor.

Having led the company through the merger and subsequent integration, in the last year James was called as a witness to the Leveson Inquiry to explain and represent the business on the various aspects of mobile phone hacking and phone security. In addition the team has delivered the legal conditions necessary for the launch of 4G services, and a new brand, EE. The team won the Lawyer Award in 2011 (In-House TMT), and is shortlisted for the British Legal Awards 2012 (Legal Department of the Year).

Jermyn P. Brooks joined Price Waterhouse London in 1962, and worked for the company in senior roles around the globe until 2000. He was a founding Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, and since 2009 chairs the 10th Principle Working Group of the United Nations Global Compact. He is also a member of the Wolfsberg Group, which developed the Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering Principles, and serves as Independent Chair of the Global Network Initiative. Brooks chaired the Steering Committee of the Business Principles for Countering Bribery. Brooks served on TI’s Board from 2003-2006 and was elected again in 2011

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.

Stephen is a specialist in insurance/reinsurance litigation and arbitration. He is experienced in working with overseas lawyers in international arbitrations, and related Court proceedings, so is familiar with the significantly different approaches to arbitration, whether ad hoc or institutional, adopted in London and in overseas jurisdictions subject to different systems of law and/or institutional arbitration rules. As well as acting in international commercial arbitration he has advised an overseas government in relation to its arbitration legislation and infrastructure. He has provided expert evidence in US litigation on English arbitration law and in Australian proceedings on English reinsurance law.

Stephen is qualified as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (international practice and law, ADR and reinsurance sections, the latter of which he is chair) and a member of the British Institute of International & Comparative Law.

Rupert specialises in commercial contracts and intellectual property, with his clients being predominantly major UK and global brand owners. He advises on a broad range of matters relating to the day-to-day operations of businesses, with a particular interest in relation to data protection and privacy matters.

As a non-contentious lawyer, his workload predominantly relates to the commercial implications of data privacy and the construction of policies and strategies to ensure compliance exploitation, as well as the structuring of arrangements to move, consolidate and exploit data. He also heads the firm’s IT group, and often advises on data centre issues, co-location, disaster recovery and outsourcing arrangements.

An additional part of his work includes advising on the commercial, data protection and IP aspects of corporate transactions, working closely with relevant groups within the firm to advise the wider corporate, financial services and private equity client base.

Rupert is a member of TIPLO, INTA, iTechlaw and, as a French speaker, also a member of APRAM. He regularly lectures and contributes to both specialist publications as well as broadsheets on matters of interest in his field.

Nick Cherryman leads Fried Frank’s International Disputes practice in London. Nick represents leading corporate clients and institutions in complex, high-value, international arbitration and large-scale multi-jurisdictional and offshore commercial disputes, often involving the coordination of multiple proceedings and arbitrations in multiple jurisdictions. He has extensive experience of conducting arbitrations under the rules of the leading international arbitration institutions, including the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Swiss Chambers’ Court of Arbitration, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. His practice has a particular focus on high-value cases emanating from Russia and the CIS countries.

Nick is an experienced advocate, having practiced as a commercial chancery barrister for 12 years before joining a leading international law firm. He is ranked as a leading practitioner for commercial disputes by Legal 500, Super Lawyers and Chambers and Partners who comment that he “provides good insight into not only the technical process but also the psychology and strategy management of the conflict to accelerate a positive outcome. He provides a good risk assessment and can synthesize complex matters into simple terms.”

Kevin Cooper studied law at Oxford University and qualified as a barrister before serving in the British Navy for nine years, much of that time at sea. After leaving the Navy in the rank of Lieutenant Commander, he worked for the US Department of Justice before joining Ince's London office in 2000. Kevin was posted to the firm's Shanghai office from 2002 to 2004. After a further year and half in London, he returned to Shanghai from 2005 to 2009, becoming a partner there in 2007. Kevin returned to the London office in June 2009.

Kevin acts mainly for major international shipowners and their insurers but also numbers major charterers and cargo owners amongst his clients. Kevin maintains his interest in China as well as having a geographical focus on Latin America, Denmark and Italy.

With criminal law experience gained during his time in the Navy, Kevin’s practice also focuses on anti-corruption policies and procedures, including the implications of the UK’s Bribery Act 2010. He provides advice and training on anti-bribery compliance and best practice to shipping, insurance and other organisations with worldwide operations.

Recently, Kevin was recognised as a leading shipping and maritime lawyer in Who's Who Legal 2012 and as a “rising star” in shipping law in 2013’s Super Lawyers UK magazine.

Sarah Davis became Group Commercial Legal Director for Guardian Media Group plc in April 2010.

Sarah is also a trustee of Poet in the City a charity committed to bringing poetry to new audiences, a governor of University of East London and also sits on the board of trustees for the Media Trust.

Orijit Das works for Genpact as their European General Counsel and is responsible for Genpact’s legal affairs and transactions emanating out of Europe. Genpact is a leading provider of Business Services and is listed on the NYSE (www.genpact.com).

In the past Mr Das has worked as the EMEA & India - General Counsel for a large technology company and for leading international law firms like Bird & Bird, K&L Gates, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.

Mr. Das has been involved with the Offshoring industry from its very inception and over the last decade has been recognised as a leading specialist in this area by numerous publications including the Euromoney Guide to Leading Lawyers and the International Legal Alliance Award & Summit etc.

In addition, Mr. Das is involved with issues facing Corporate Counsels in Europe and regularly addresses in-house lawyers gatherings across the globe on challenges issues facing the Corporate Counsel. Mr Das is a Board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”) Europe.

Ketan Dholakia is a global IT executive with in-depth knowledge of IT services and operations with more than 20 years of experience establishing security and risk management solutions. Ketan’s professional services expertise has established him as leader in the enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (eGRC) arena delivering sustainable solutions for businesses to manage their reputational, revenue, and regulatory risk. Working with large and mid-tiered multi-national corporations, Ketan provides an array of technical and practical perspectives on building and protecting an organization’s critical information assets. Ketan has been a leader in actively promoting eGRC frameworks throughout the financial, energy, education, healthcare and manufacturing industries.

Prior to co-founding Maclear, Ketan led professional service teams for Schlaumburger, Zurich Financial Services and Archer.

Ketan has a B.S.E.E in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois as well as a M.B.A. in Information Technology and Finance from Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager, Archer Certified Professional, and ITIL Achieving Foundations Advisor.

Andrew holds a BSc in Technology Management and has 12 years’ experience working in the IT sector. His career began with IBM on their graduate scheme in technical presales in 2001, progressing through IBM’s prestigious sales school with distinction. After some time in presales he moved into a sales role selling datacentre related solutions at the start of the x86 virtualisation revolution, adding value to global fortune 100 companies. Andrew then joined Hewlett Packard and after 3 more successful years selling complex solutions moved into sales management. Andrew led a successful team of sellers into a competitive market space and set up a new channel for HP focussed on companies like Mimecast who build innovative products using HP’s technology. Andrew joined Mimecast in November 2012 to lead the enterprise sales effort. He is a father of two beautiful girls and enjoys many outdoor activities including cycling and snowboarding.

Alex leads KPMG’s e-discovery practice in the UK. Alex has been involved in e-discovery at KPMG for more than six years. Before joining KPMG, Alex spent seven years as a lawyer at Herbert Smith, in both London and Brussels. Alex has extensive experience of EC, UK and US investigations and disputes and the jurisdictional challenges of e-discovery. Alex speaks regularly at conferences and seminars relating to these matters, in particular providing seminars to the legal profession on the use of technology. Alex is a member of The Sedona conference Working Group 6 – International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. Alex has also written a number of articles and papers on e-disclosure and records management. Recent work in which Alex has been involved includes:

• Supporting a client with the development of in-house e-discovery and litigation readiness policies and protocols. This included advising on data scoping in the context of differing legal requirements in Europe and the US, data collection protocols and the defensibility of specific data collection process, legal hold and data processing methodologies.
• Supporting a major bank in relation to its e-discovery requirements and developing analysis relating to the balancing of in-house and external e-discovery support.
• Advising clients on data management processes for dealing with regulatory raids.
• Advising clients on e-discovery processes in the context of major litigation and European Commission investigations.

Paul H. Friedman represents parties in merger and non-merger investigations and in antitrust/competition litigation. Mr. Friedman regularly serves as lead counsel in multi-defendant class and non-class action matters in U.S. federal and state courts as well as in U.S. and foreign arbitral tribunals.

In one of the most highly publicized competition matters in recent years--the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to Whole Foods Markets’ acquisition of Wild Oats, Mr. Friedman acted as one of the lead trial lawyers for Whole Foods Markets. At trial, Mr. Friedman’s cross examination of the government’s expert economic witness played a pivotal role in persuading the federal judge to reject the FTC’s request to temporarily block the merger.

In Peabody Energy’s AU$5 billion acquisition of Australian-based coal miner Macarthur Coal Limited, Mr. Friedman led the team that secured clearance in a number of jurisdictions around the world, including Brazil, China, Japan and Korea.

Mr. Friedman is ranked as a top antitrust lawyer by Chambers USA, a referral guide to leading lawyers that has noted his "'excellent cross-examination of experts in antitrust cases" and that "his litigation prowess gains him further acclaim."

Mr. Joseph Gauci has been in the profession for more than 30 years. He is presently the Managing Partner of KSi Malta. Mr. Gauci is an ex-Deloitte and Grant Thornton partner and has acted as consultant to various large international companies, organizations and Government Departments.

Over the years he has held various important positions in Malta, including Board Member of Vat Appeals Board, Chief Internal Auditor at the Malta Dry-docks and Enemalta Corporation.

Recently Mr. Gauci was appointed to represent Malta as President in the European Economic Chamber of Trade, Commerce and Industry an EU institution

Donna Goldsworthy is as a Partner in Cozen O'Connor's London office focusing on commercial litigation and arbitration.

Donna has significant experience in high value complex international litigation and arbitration. She also has experience in disputes in the areas of white collar crime, regulatory, international trading agreements, commercial contracts, commodities, and joint venture agreements. She has recently played key advisory roles to clients on the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Her practice spans a range of industry sectors including real estate, financial institutions and energy.

Donna’s cases have involved asset tracing and freezing injunctions, alleged fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, asset tracing, company insolvency and commercial law. She has also played a significant role in assisting with an internal review of a leading international bank and alleged breaches of financial regulations. She has experience of conducting arbitrations under the rules of the leading international arbitration institutions, including the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Donna is an accredited mediator and is a Solicitor-Advocate. Recent cases African Strategic Investment (Holdings) Ltd, Randgold & Exploration Co Ltd v Christopher Paul MacDonald Main (2011) LTL 30/8/2011 : [2011] EWHC 2223 (Ch)

Prior to joining Cozen O'Connor Donna held senior roles in Paul Hastings and Linklaters.

His experience in relation to underwriting commercial litigation cases for litigation funding ATE insurance purposes is as extensive as any Legal Underwriter. Bob has lectured widely on ATE insurance, litigation funding and related subjects to solicitor groups, barrister groups and organisations such as the Commercial Bar Association and has been quoted widely in the UK legal press. Over a period of 12 years Bob has been responsible for the underwriting of in excess of 11,000 commercial litigation cases for ATE insurance and/or litigation funding with the cases ranging from small commercial litigation to large and complex multi-jurisdictional matters.

Philip has more than 30 years experience of working in the aerospace industry having spent 14 years at BAE Systems and more recently with Meggitt PLC, a FTSE100 company, initially in the role of Group Company Secretary and now in the position of Group Corporate Affairs Director. He was appointed to the Board of Meggitt PLC in 2001. In this role he is responsible for legal and compliance matters. He is also President of Meggitt USA Inc. – the holding company for all of Meggitt’s US assets.

He is married with two grown sons and is an avid soccer fan being a season ticket holder at Southampton FC who are based close to his home in the south of England; he attends as many games as his busy professional life allows. He also enjoys a number of other sports – rugby, cricket, tennis - although these days only as a spectator.

He has a keen interest in the arts and is a frequent visitor and supporter of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Michael Harris is a specialist in enhanced due diligence, company and individual investigations, international sanctions, anti-money laundering, KYC and risk management using business intelligence to assist companies in compliance with UK Bribery Act and FCPA .

Michael graduated from the University of Birmingham with double honours degrees worked in sales and marketing then advanced into general management. Between 1988 and 2005, he held positions as managing director in three different organisations including a division of a Multi National company, an American group and latterly an SME. From 2006 until 2009, Michael was Director of Business Development and Head of Business Legal Services for a Regional Law Firm.

He trained as a consultant with the highly acclaimed Alchemy Network .

Michael has worked with World-Check and now Thomson Reuters since 2009 providing Enhanced Due Diligence services to AIM Nomads, Law Firms and Specialist Engineering and Manufacturing Companies in Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Food and Chemical Processing.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Jackie Holland joined the OFT in June 2008. She is the Senior Director of the Policy Group and also the OFT’s Procedural Adjudicator for Competition Act 1998 cases. Her group advises internally on policy issues and carries out projects to shape the future direction of the OFT's competition, markets and consumer work. Jackie has led the OFT’s input into the antitrust and concurrency aspects of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ proposals to form the Competition and Markets Authority. Her group's recent competition projects have included consultations on revised leniency guidance and revised Competition Act 1998 procedures, the review of the OFT’s penalty guidance, guidance for businesses and directors on competition law compliance, guidance on the application of competition law to land agreements, the development of the Procedural Adjudicator trial, research into Drivers of Compliance and Non-Compliance with Competition law, the review of the OFT's director disqualification guidance and the development of the OFT's new Short-form Opinion tool. They have also been actively involved in the European Commission's various block exemption reviews. Previously she was a Senior Associate in the Competition Group of Slaughter and May, where she had extensive experience of advising on EU and UK competition law issues arising in the context of mergers, commercial practices and agreements, dominance situations, competition authority investigations and litigation. She was seconded to the Slaughter and May Brussels office between 2004 and 2006.

Akash Sachdeva is a Partner in the IP department of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. He is a qualified barrister having trained in the specialist IP chambers of Christopher Floyd QC (now Mr Justice Floyd). He has over 15 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property litigation with a particular emphasis on hi-tech disputes. Akash is also admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and spent 5 years there working for a major international firm. Akash regularly acts for clients from the Far East, South East Asia and the Middle East and his recent experience includes advising a major Middle Eastern telecoms company on their global rebranding exercise, acting for a Middle Eastern company in a copyright infringement action, acting for a Saudi Arabian company in a complex ICC arbitration involving polypropelene technology and for a major Chinese telecoms company in proceedings in Hong Kong and China. In addition, Akash has acted for BlackBerry in patent litigation actions, for eBay in trade mark litigation matters and currently is retained advisor for global marketing and promotional matters for a major consumer electronics company.

Sonja began her career with the main Belgian media group, Roularta, as account manager for their professional publications resulting into marketing manager during the last two years. She joined Interactive Dialogues in 2001 as account manager for Benefralux and Denmark. In that role she was responsible for the development and deployment of numerous legal - ethical compliance programmes and global communication projects for blue-chip companies; with a special focus on helping UK companies in the area of compliance learning as of 2008. Since February 2011, Sonja has been taking on the responsibility of business development manager and is member of the Interactive Dialogues executive management.

Chris is a specialist in business critical situations and in working with clients to manage disputes to improve their market position and returns. He is a risk specialist and has achieved national recognition as a specialist in two areas – the transport industry and safety. He has been closely involved in policy and strategic (as well as operational) developments to help build Burges Salmon’s strong national practices in those sectors.

He regularly acts in cases of significant public interest including some of the most significant recent public law and procurement cases. These included the successful defence of a sustained supplier challenge to the purchase by Eurostar of its state of the art £700 million new generation fleet of very high speed trains and acting for one of the primary parties involved in the challenge to the award of the West Coast Main Line franchise in 2012.

Chris has advised on regulatory and criminal investigations across a range of industries following high profile events. He passionately believes that criminal, regulatory, civil and insurance aspects need to be managed in an integrated way (critically so in a high pressure situation) with legal risk in turn integrated with the effective management of wider financial, reputational and strategic risk.

Chris is a Solicitor-Advocate and has regularly appeared as advocate in public inquiries, arbitrations, mediations, court proceedings and inquests. He regularly provides training to directors and senior management on statutory and regulatory risk/liability for organisations and individuals and jointly developed the firm’s Legal Risk product.

Elisabeth Schulze Jaegle is an expert in the use of innovation in training and development with a focus on eContent, informal and blended learning.

Elisabeth has more than 13 years of experience in external and internal consulting of multinational companies, including one of the largest German energy company (internal main subject matter expert for eLearning & blended learning for the last seven years), which has more than 80,000 employees worldwide. She is specializing in corporate group-wide electronic and informal learning, virtual communication and collaboration, conflict management and mobile working and learning. Elisabeth pays particular attention to the use of effective learning formats, with an emphasis on the actual needs of the employees and the business.

Since July 2012 she is a freelance learning consultant and mediator.

Robert Jones is a Legal Consultant at Kroll Ontrack in the UK. His role is to advise lawyers and their clients on the management of evidence and the use of technology in litigation, investigations and other matters.

Mr Jones provides consultancy that assists clients in the interrogation and management of document intensive cases. This often includes advising on implications of the services associated with disclosure exercises, and scoping multi-regional projects. Robert advises clients on strategies and techniques to help lawyers deploy technology effectively and responsibly and fulfil their goals.

Mr Jones’ clients include law firms, corporate counsel and government agencies. He is called upon for his significant depth, variety and volume of experience and is often consulted on the practicalities surrounding the management, processing and review of electronic evidence.

Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Mr Jones worked for over five years within a Top 100 international law firm managing disclosure projects for large scale litigation cases. His work involved managing teams of legal professionals and delivering effective solutions to maximize the efficiency of one of the firm’s busiest litigation teams.

Andrew is Director of Legal at Specsavers, the world's largest privately owned optical retailer.

After he qualified as a solicitor in 1993 he joined Eversheds, one of the world's largest law firms, specialising in corporate and commercial law. He moved to the Cayman Islands for a two year stint between 1996-1998 covering all aspects of offshore commercial law. Andrew then returned to Eversheds and, for the next two years, focused on corporate law, before moving in-house with Boots, Nottingham in 2000. He spent six years at Boots handling all aspects of the group's corporate and commercial legal work, including the sale of Halfords and Boots Healthcare International and the merger of Boots and Alliance Unichem to form Alliance Boots. Andrew joined Specsavers in 2006 and his specialist areas remain corporate and commercial law as well as competition and retail law.

Nina’s of responsibility is global. As a Head of Corporate Legal Nina is responsible for all corporate legal and legal re-structuring work, subsidiary administration in 150 jurisdictions, Corporate Governance topics in NSN, Insider and other Securities Market Act related topics as well as regulatory legal and anti-trust work on the mergers & acquisitions. She has been managing corporate legal department of 12 lawyers including; corporate lawyers, labor lawyers, financing lawyers and data protection lawyers in all the challenging years after NSN joint venture was formed.

Additional Nina has been heading NSN´s Ethics and Compliance Department as a Chief Compliance Officer since February 2010, with the responsibility for Company´s Compliance functions and programs. Her team consists of 6 compliance counsels and one investigator working fulltime on compliance globally. In this role Nina reports to NSN Board of Directors and to Nokia Audit committee. During year 2011 Nina and her team investigated 126 compliance cases.

Nina is also a member of NSN Legal and Compliance Leadership Team, which is responsible of managing more than 120 lawyers as well as responsible for keeping and developing global legal policies and programs on an international level.

Prior to NSN, Nina was general Counsel at M-real Corporation and before that she worked in private practice advising on Finish as well as international corporate law.

Paul qualified as a solicitor in Australia in 2000 and has worked in major law firms in both Sydney and London. Immediately prior to joining Barclays, he was a member of the Finance, Corporate and Regulatory Litigation practice in Clifford Chance LLP.

Paul leads the Barclays Retail and Business Banking (RBB) Litigation and Special Investigations team. The team’s remit is broad and extends to all legal disputes and regulatory proceedings involving the various RBB businesses in the UK, Europe and Africa. The team also conducts and provides legal expertise on contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

Gregor Kleinknecht is the founder and managing director of Klein Solicitors, a successful independent legal boutique located in Mayfair in the West End of London. He is qualified both as an English Solicitor and as a German Rechtsanwalt. Prior to setting up Klein Solicitors in 2007, Gregor was in private practice at two leading City of London law firms and, most recently, in the London office of a top-ranked US law firm. His principal practice area is international dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on complex and high value cross-border and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Gregor also has a strong international IP practice, focusing on brand management and protection, including the creation, exploitation, protection and enforcement of trade marks, domain names, design rights and copyright. Gregor’s clients range from large multi-national corporations to small innovative start-up businesses covering a wide range of industry sectors, and also include world-leading academic institutions, museums, art galleries, dealers and collectors, artists and sports personalities, family offices and private clients.

Edward Lee is head of the Corporate Finance team and a specialist M&A partner. His practice covers all types of corporate and commercial transactions, including domestic and international corporate finance, joint ventures, MBO/MBIs, refinancings and start-up investments.

Edward's clients include major multi national corporations, FTSE PLCs and serial acquirers. Legal 500 described him as "an asset that enables the firm to compete with any London firm, but at a reasonable and realistic cost". He has special expertise in UK acquisitions by US companies and is listed for Corporate Finance in the US publication "Best Lawyers". He is also noted as a corporate finance expert in Chambers & Partners legal directory and has a reputation for having a strong technical skill-set coupled with effective communication and people skills. He was described in Chambers as "a leader in his field".

Marc is VP – Ethics & Compliance for BP’s Refining & Marketing division and Group Anti-Money Laundering Co-ordinator since March 2011. In this role he is accountable for design and effective deployment of the ethics and compliance programme for BP’s R&M division which covers over 50,000 people in over 40 jurisdictions. he is also responsible for designing and implementing the group wide compliance programmes for both anti-money laundering and anti-trust.

From 2006 - 2011, Marc was Vice President – Head of Integrated Supply & Trading (IST) Compliance at BP, accountable for the design and effective deployment of a compliance framework appropriate for IST’s supply and trading activities. He successfully managed BP’s approach to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement and the imposition of an US- department of Justice appointed Monitor.

Prior to BP, he held various senior compliance roles at International Petroleum Exchange, Credit Lyonnais and ING.

Marc holds an MSc in Politics and is Board member of the Futures and Options Association.

Elaine Mays began her legal career in private practice. Since moving in-house 10 years ago she has worked for both Vetco Gray and Baker Hughes, at times when they have retained an independent Monitor in light of settlements entered into with the DOJ and SEC. In July 2012 Elaine became the Chief Compliance Officer for Wood Group, serving as the focal point for business ethics and compliance matters across the Group’s global activities. Wood Group is a leading independent services provider for the oil & gas and power generation markets. Wood Group’s services include engineering, procurement and construction management, facility operations & maintenance, and repair & overhaul of turbines and other high-speed rotating equipment. The Group employs around 41,000 people worldwide and operates in over 50 countries.

Susanne is VP & General Counsel, EMEA at Eaton. In this role she is leading a strong team of 27 law professionals based in different parts of the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. As a member of the EMEA executive team she is responsible for effective management of legal risks, the partnering of her team with leaders to accelerate global business goals and building a culture of integrity. She has been in her role since October 2006 and is based in Switzerland.

From 2001 - 2006, Susanne held various positions as European and International Counsel at GMAC Automotive and Insurance, the former financial services arm of General Motors, and was based in the UK.

Prior to her tenure at GMAC, she was an equity partner in the law firm Dr. Vaagt & Partner in Germany where she headed up the Scandinavian desk and was specialised in insolvency and employment laws.

Susanne holds a PhD in Law and is active in the area of risk management in emerging markets.

Justin Michaelson’s extensive experience in disputes covers a wide variety of sectors including oil and gas, real estate, software technology, metals, telecoms, private equity and major projects. He has advised on a broad range of issues, including disputes arising out of private equity start-ups and exits; shareholder disputes; manufacturer-distributor quality and service disputes; real estate and construction disputes. His global practice touches upon myriad jurisdictions, particularly the BRIC countries and developing economies. He regularly advises clients and colleagues on dispute-resolution clauses for all types of ADR.

His practice also encompasses major Commercial Court litigation with an international component as demonstrated by his involvement in various high-profile reported cases in England, including the recent Supreme Court case of VTB v Nutritek & Others.

Justin is recommended in the International Arbitration section of the Legal 500 2012. He is also identified by Super Lawyers 2013 as one of top 100 lawyers in London; as a Leading Expert in The International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators 2012; and recognised as a Leader in the Field of International Arbitration in the Legal Experts Guide 2012.

Alastair Molyneux is a Business Development Consultant within the Legal Technologies team at Kroll Ontrack. His role is to advise organisations on the management of evidence and the use of technology in support of litigation, investigations and other matters. Alastair assists clients with the identification, preservation, collection and analysis of potential evidence in document intensive cases and suggests strategies and techniques to help deploy technology efficiently and cost‐effectively.

Alastair joined from the Data Recovery division of Kroll Ontrack, where he served as the Sales and Business Development Manager with responsibility for all direct and indirect sales. His clients were predominantly large corporations, consultancies and technology manufacturers.

Prior to working for Kroll Ontrack, Alastair worked for various boutique and large management consultancy firms across Europe in technology consultancy roles. Over this time, Alastair has developed a keen understanding of the ever-changing technology market in which his clients operate. He has over fifteen years of experience in the in the areas of business continuity, security, risk and compliance.

Alastair has a Management degree from the University of Bradford.

Gideon was elected as the Global Head of the Linklaters Banking practice in 2011, having previously been co-head of its leveraged finance group. The Linklaters banking practice comprises of over 400 lawyers in 17 jurisdictions. Areas covered by the practice include Investment Grade Finance, Leveraged Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, High Yield, Real Estate Finance, Emerging Markets and Banking Regulation. Gideon is listed as a “leading individual” in the Legal 500 and a “key individual” in Chambers and is described as “a class act on the lending side” and as being “commercial and logical”. He is “widely seen as a standout man in the field”.

Tanya joined the London office of Ince & Co LLP as a corporate partner in the Business and Finance group in January 2012 from a leading international law firm. Tanya has over 17 years' experience and advises clients on corporate transactions including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fund raisings, start-ups and restructurings. She has experience of a number of business sectors and concentrates on energy and natural resources, aviation and financial institutions. Clients she has advised include oil and gas companies, from start-up independents to majors, banks, insurers, airlines and private aviation companies. She has also advised on main market and AIM listings of airlines and on a major group reorganisation for an airline. Much of Tanya’s work is cross-border and multi-jurisdictional. She is based in London but works on matters internationally, with extensive experience in transactions in emerging markets including Kazakhstan, Russia, Nigeria, Gabon and elsewhere.

Tamara leads Vodafone's global compliance with UK Bribery Act and FCPA legislation. In this role, she is responsible for the Group Compliance Team, facilitating conformance with compliance standards across the global business and across a range of policy areas.

Prior to her position at Vodafone, Tamara worked as a Director within Risk Assurance Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Beginning her career in Sydney in 2000, Tamara is a chartered accountant and worked in external audit for a number of years before broadening her experience to specialise in both internal audit and people and capability development.

In addition to specialising in internal audit and behavioural change across a broad range of clients including FTSE 100 and multinationals, Tamara has been involved in behavioural change and has a broad range of experience assisting organisations with their training needs including the analysis, design and delivery of high impact training.

Kees van Ophem, originally from The Netherlands, joined Leica in July 2010 as General Counsel. As head of the General Counsel-function he is responsible for all risk management matters of the Leica Microsystems Group, including Legal, Compliance/Integrity, IP and EHS, and is member of its global corporate management.

Kees studied law at University of Amsterdam (cum laude) and New York University (LL.M; Fulbright-scholar).

He started his career at international law-firms both in the USA and Europe. His in-house career as General Counsel led him through a complete cycle in the telecoms' industry over a period of almost 15 years (from a monopoly player, KPN, an international joint venture of Swisscom, KPN, Telia and Telefonica, a Pan-European start-up (including IPO) to a global public restructuring in London at FLAG Telecom). In 2005, he switched to the Life Sciences' industry and became International General Counsel at Medtronic at its international headquarters in the Lausanne area in Switzerland.

He is married to Karina and has 2 boys, who share his passion for football, and he lives with them in Switzerland.

Johanne Peyre is Franco-Canadian, she studied law at the law school and Business Law Center of the Université Montpellier I (France) and at the University of Florida College of Law (US). Member of the Paris Bar, she worked as an attorney and specialized in competition law from 1998 through 2005 principally at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb (in Paris, Brussels and Washington). She joined Michelin in 2005 and is notably in charge of antitrust compliance for the Group.

Various : lectures on French and European competition and distribution law at the law school of the University of Montpellier (France) ; speaker at various conferences on competition law including at the British Institute of International Comparative Law, the LIDC, the OECD and the IBA.

Bill was elected the first Senior Partner of Carter Perry Bailey on the firm’s formation in 2009, having previously been Senior Partner, and Head of Litigation, at Pickering Kenyon and Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution at Charles Russell. In 2011 -2012 he became the first non-American to be President of the International Association of Defense Counsel. He is currently President of Insuralex, an international network of 30 specialist (re-)insurance law firms, having been Vice President in 2010 – 2012.

Bill’s practice centres on (re-)insurance coverage issues, litigation and arbitration, policy wordings advice, and on commercial litigation and arbitration. He also has specialist expertise in trust and fiduciary disputes. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He has considerable experience in arbitration internationally, both acting for parties under diverse rules (ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ad hoc) and enforcing arbitral awards world-wide. He has also sat as an arbitrator.

Julian Pike heads up Farrer & Co's Reputation Management practice. He has more than 20 years' experience of advising high profile individuals, corporations and institutions who find themselves the subject of attention, whether from traditional media, online or from campaigning/obsessed individuals.

As part of acting on a crisis management plan, reputation management is a critical part of a business' response to a crisis. How a company addresses a crisis says a great deal about the organisation, its leaders and its values. Handling a crisis well can leave a company in a stronger position. Unquestionably, the reverse is also true.

Often, Julian will work with public relations advisers, in-house and external, to achieve the best outcomes. This practice recognises that the law has its limitations, but also that there is a need to take account of the client's long term business and strategic interests, as well as dealing with the immediate challenges. Having also represented major UK media organisations throughout his career, Julian knows the “art of the possible” and how best this is achieved.

Jane Player is a partner in the Disputes Department of King & Spalding, an international law firm. Jane is known for her risk management and conflict avoidance work, working with many household name clients to develop dispute avoidance protocols. Jane also specialises in high-value commercial contractual claims often with an international profile to the client base. She has been involved in a number of large scale multiparty litigation and arbitration matters for both UK and international clients and, in particular, complex joint venture and share purchase agreement disputes, professional negligence and fraud investigations. Clients use Jane for her pragmatic and commercial approach to issues.

Jane is an accredited mediator and has been involved in a large number of mediations both in the UK and internationally.

Daniel is an employment law specialist who also has expertise advising on data privacy issues. His particular focus is on advising clients in relation to the processing of human resources data including carrying out pre-employment screening, the operation of whistleblowing hotlines, the implementation of human resources databases and responding to subject access requests.

Daniel has coordinated a number of multinational data privacy projects including those involving the review of international data privacy policies for household name clients. He frequently advises on the international transfer of personal data and data privacy compliance obligations that arise in connection with global internal investigations, civil litigation and regulatory investigations both in the UK and US.

Daniel is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Catriona Razic is Co-Founder and Director of e-learning firm Inmarkets, one of the leading companies offering GRC e-learning solutions. She has 15 years experience of developing optimised corporate training initiatives and has overseen many complex e-learning implementations in large organisations. She currently advises global firms on communication strategies for a bribery and corruption free environment, with the use of e-learning and other web-based tools. Inmarkets have delivered Anti-Bribery e-learning to hundreds of organisations, and Catriona has a wealth of experience of ensuring the message delivered to the learner is highly relevant and practical. She has partnered with consultancies such as PwC to offer services to their clients, and with Transparency International UK to build their ‘benchmark’ anti-bribery e-learning solution, “Doing Business Without Bribery”.

Paul van Reesch is Vice President, Legal for Coca-Cola Enterprises in Great Britain. Paul leads the Great Britain Legal Team in delivering the Legal Business Plan, the focus of which is a strategic partnership with the business to drive consistent long term profitable growth for Coca-Cola Enterprises. Passionate about leadership and the mantras of prolific management guru Tom Peters, Paul works hard with the team to drive Excellence and to ensure that personal growth and development are core to the success of the team

A dual qualified Australian/English lawyer, Paul joined Coca-Cola Enterprises in 2004 after working for several years in private practice in Australia. Since joining Coca-Cola Enterprises he has worked in a number of legal roles across the Coca-Cola Enterprises business in Europe, providing him with extensive operational experience of a global FMCG business.

Adam Smith is Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of DCNS, based in Paris. With sales approaching € 3bn, DCNS is a world leader in naval defence and an innovative player in energy. The group builds and supports conventional and nuclear submarines and surface combat vessels for navies worldwide and is also active in civil nuclear engineering and marine renewable energy projects. Adam joined the group in June 2010 and heads a team of around 40 lawyers and 70 contract managers based in Paris and the historic French shipyards. In addition, Adam leads the group's compliance function.

Adam qualified in 1990 at Lovells in London, where he worked in the corporate insolvency team buying and selling rescued businesses. When the recession ended, armed with an MBA, he became an investment banker in the City.

In 1998, Adam moved to Paris, becoming international legal counsel with the Lagardère group so as to participate in the consolidation of the European aerospace sector which led to the creation of EADS in 2000. Until 2008, he was head of the M&A legal department at EADS' Paris headquarters. Thereafter, he moved to Munich as General Counsel of the defence & security division of EADS, now known as Cassidian.

A British and French national, Adam holds an LLB from University College London, an MBA from London Business School and recently completed an MA in History. He hopes shortly to commence a PhD in Modern Languages.

Adam is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Yvonne has headed the specialist legal and company secretarial recruitment divisions of Hays since 2005. She has 15 years recruitment experience across professional services firms and FTSE 350 organisations in the UK and overseas.

She is regularly called upon by management teams to advise on strategies relating to the recruitment and retention of legal professionals and teams and is also actively involved in the London business community as a Hays Ambassador.

Before joining Hays, and from 1992-1996 she practised law in London at the international law firm Norton Rose, specialising in reinsurance law. She obtained an LLB Hons degree from Cardiff University and her post graduate legal studies were completed at the College of Law in Guildford.

Ron Surbey has been with SPI Group since the beginning of 2010. Ron is U.S.-qualified, business-oriented lawyer and is in charge of legal support of all activities of the Group and legal protection of its interests.

He began his career as a transactional and securities lawyer in Pennsylvania and South Florida and in 1999 became a partner with the international law firm, Holland & Knight LLP, where he specialised on Latin America and other international transactions.

In 2001, Ron expanded on his growing international experience and moved from Argentina to Slovakia. There as a senior international counsel for White & Case, he worked extensively with foreign investors new to post-Communist markets and negotiated several agreements on state support for investors with the Slovak government. In addition, he managed real estate, commercial and other matters for large international companies doing business in Central Europe. He served three years as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic.

In 2007, Ron’s increasing involvement in the Russian market prompted him to move to Moscow, where he continued his transactional practice in the Russian market until joining SPI.

Ron has a B.A. in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs and Russian language from Miami University and a Juris Doctor from Ohio State University. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he lived extensively around the world, including in France and Taiwan. In addition to his native English, he speaks fluent Russian, French, Spanish and Slovak.

Rob Thomas is co-founder of Serengeti Law and currently serves as vice president, Strategic Development, for Thomson Reuters. He was an architect of Serengeti’s Internet-based e-billing/matter management system, which is the most widely used and highest-rated system for managing legal work in the world, with thousands of users in 189 countries.

Rob created the ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey, and is a widely published author and frequent speaker on the use of technology by in-house counsel to efficiently manage their work with outside counsel. His articles have appeared in the ABA’s Law Practice Management, ACC's Docket, LawNet’s Peer-to-Peer and Risk Management. Prior to joining Serengeti, Rob had more than 20 years of diverse experiences as a practicing attorney.

Michael L. Weiner provides strategic advice, resolves government investigations and effectively litigates for clients with antitrust/competition issues in a broad range of industries.

He has significant experience in securing government approval of high profile mergers and acquisitions, having recently represented Yahoo!, Inc. in its joint venture with Microsoft, Inc., Avis in its acquisition of Budget, and two regional wireless telecom providers in their acquisitions by AT&T, Inc. and Verizon Wireless, respectively.

In his litigation work, Mr. Weiner represents clients in a variety of industries, including insurance, real estate brokerage, and fine art auctions, in price-fixing and other antitrust class actions. He is currently defending Travelport in a monopolization and conspiracy litigation brought by American Airlines.

Mr. Weiner has been recognized for his work by legal referral guide Chambers USA, where he was “praised by commentators who note that ‘he is extremely knowledgeable on substantive antitrust law, and better yet, he’s easy to work with.’” Chambers USA also wrote that Mr. Weiner has won “particular acclaim” for his “M&A expertise” and is also noted for his “concise and excellent writing skills.”

Dinah Spence LLB., MSc. is a Solicitor. She qualified in 1994 and spent 10 years in private practice, specialising in Commercial Litigation. Prior to leaving private practice she was a partner of London City law firm Charles Russell.

Dinah holds Masters degree in International Business, Corporate Governance and Ethics from the University of London (2006) and has 6 years non-contentious/regulatory in-house experience in U.S. listed multi-national Sotheby’s as Compliance Counsel – Europe & Asia. She was appointed Group Compliance Officer for Macmillan Ltd in August 2010.

Dinah’s key areas of professional interest and expertise are international business ethics, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering, organisational change, coaching and development and investigation and audit.

Ian sits on AstraZeneca’s Global Compliance Leadership Team and coordinates compliance activity and initiatives across the different areas of the company. The Global Compliance organisation includes over 200 staff situated both at the company’s headquarters and in many markets in all regions. He previously occupied a similar role in the Legal Department of AstraZeneca, having initially joined ICI’s Legal Department in 1991. He has a law degree and is admitted as a solicitor

Jason is a US-qualified lawyer with extensive e-discovery experience, both as a lawyer and as an advisor. In his role, Jason consults clients on the management of digital evidence and the employment of advanced technology to mitigate risks and control legal spend. Prior to focusing on technology risk consultation for legal matters, Jason worked as an attorney in New York, assisting in the adjudication of the $1.25 billion ‘Swiss Banks Settlement’ (in re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation). Part of the Swiss Deposited Assets Program and with the use of e-discovery technologies, he analysed the entitlement of victims and their heirs to Holocaust‐era dormant assets in Switzerland. His work involved extensive document review exposure, multilingual analysis of Swiss banking documents, judgment of claimants’ supporting evidence and the drafting of legal awards and denials. Jason is fluent in German and proficient in Polish, and is a regular speaker on the topic of forensic technology and the law.