Ruben Kraiem — Partner at Covington & Burling LLP

Mr. Ruben Kraiem is a Partner of Covington & Burling LLP. Mr. Kraiem was a Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP in New York. His work in recent years has included the representation of major financial institutions in banking and insurance-related acquisitions and other transactions in Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, advice to private equity and other investors in a variety of industries (such as telecommunications, real estate development and healthcare) and to fund sponsors or other business clients in the raising of capital (from private sources or public markets) for investment in the region. In addition, Mr. Kraiem has both lived and worked extensively in Asia and represented Asian companies in joint ventures, restructurings, and other transactions in the U.S. and elsewhere. He is a trustee and chair of the legal committee of the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr. Kraiem has been a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the New York University Law School (2002-2003), an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Business School (1992-1994), and a teaching fellow at Harvard College (1980-1981). He is the author of Leaving Money on the Table: Contract Practice in a Low-Trust Environment, 42 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 715 (2004) and of other articles in Examen, Latin Finance, LatinLaw, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, the Asian Wall Street Journal and Cr??tica, as well as Limits and Beyond, a report on the global environment for the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was awarded his B.A. degree in 1978, summa cum laude, and of Harvard Law School, where he received his J.D. degree in 1981, cum laude, and was Articles Editor (1980-1981) of The Harvard International Law Journal.