Milbank Tweed Культура компании

Mr. Laurence Jacobs serves as a Partner and Head of Technology and Outsourcing Group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Mr. Jacobs is a partner in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP's Technology Transactions and Outsourcing Group based in London, having previously headed the outsourcing practice at a 'magic circle' firm in London. Mr. Jacobs has wide experience in a wide range of IT and business process outsourcing and also of strategic alliances, joint ventures and projects in this sector. He advises on the development of outsourcing strategy for a number of major companies and institutions. His experience includes advising on the world's largest civil IT project, the recent NHS National Programme for IT in the UK, a complex transaction involving nine major contracts arranged at both local and national level. Mr. Jacobs has also advised Barclays, EDS, Equant, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds TSB, RBS, T-Systems, Unisys and SAIC on major technology outsourcing projects. Mr. Jacobs qualified as an English solicitor in 1990, became a partner at Allen & Overy LLP in 1997 and joined Milbank as a partner in 2004. He has published articles in the Independent newspaper and Computing, EIPR and Managing Intellectual Property journals. He has been rated in Chambers UK Directory and the Legal 500 as one of the UK's leading outsourcing/information technology lawyers. In 2004, he was also listed by the Lawyer as one of the top 100 lawyers in Europe.

Mr. Nick Swinburne has been a Co-Head of London Transport and Space Group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP since June 2015.

Mr. Kenneth J. Baronsky, also known as Ken, serves as Managing Partner of Los Angeles Office at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Mr. Baronsky is recognized as a leading corporate and securities lawyer. He represents public and privately-held companies, investment banks, hedge funds, distressed funds and private equity funds in public offerings, private financings, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, and other sophisticated transactions. Prior to joining Milbank, Mr. Baronsky worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Burlington Northern and Charles Schwab & Co. Mr. Baronsky is a member of the State Bar of California where he serves on the Legal Opinions Subcommittee of the Business Law Section. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Washington.

Mr. David H. Zemans serves as Managing Partner of Asia Practice at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. David has been based in Singapore since 1997 and has advised clients on many of the largest and most complex corporate finance transactions to have been successfully completed across Asia, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, India, China and Australia. Milbank has been advising corporate, government and institutional clients for over 140 years. David studied political science at McGill University and received an LL.B. from Dalhousie University, Canada's oldest law school.? David is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Singapore Management University School of Law.

Mr. George S. Canellos has been Global Head of Litigation & Arbitration Group and Partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP since March 15, 2014. Mr. Canellos served as a Co-Director of Enforcement at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from April 2013 to January 2014 and served as its Deputy Director of The Division of The Enforcement until February 8, 2013. Mr. Canellos served as Regional Director of the SEC's New York Regional Office at Securities and Exchange Commission, Inc. since July 1, 2009. He served as Acting Director of enforcement at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since February 2013. He was a Litigation Partner in the Litigation Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP from 2003 to 2009. From 1994 to 2002, He was a criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Canell served as Chief of the Major Crimes Unit where he supervised teams of prosecutors responsible for investigating and prosecuting large-scale financial crimes such as bank, insurance and tax fraud, foreign corrupt practices, money laundering and many other forms of investment fraud. While working in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Canellos also served as Senior Trial Counsel of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and was responsible for the prosecution of many individuals and corporations for accounting fraud, investment advisory fraud, insider trading and other violations of the federal securities laws. He also served as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, one of five supervisors in charge of overseeing the briefing and argument of all criminal appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Southern Circuit. He began his legal career in 1989 as a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz, a New York law firm specializing in securities regulation and corporate control controversies. In 1999, Mr. Canellos was named Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, for overall distinction as a federal prosecutor. He was recognized in Chambers USA's listing of America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and in International Who's Who Legal listing of top business crime lawyers. Mr. Canellos earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in Economics from Harvard College in 1986 and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1989.

Mr. Alan J. Stone has been a Partner of Litigation Department and Practice Group Leader of Litigation and Arbitration Group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP since April 2007. Mr. Stone's practice focuses on corporate and business litigation, including proxy contests, mergers and acquisitions, consent solicitations, complex valuation disputes and 'interested party' transactions. In addition, he advises corporate boards of directors and special committees with respect to transactional and litigation issues. Mr. Stone has represented directors, officers and corporate entities in actions challenging their exercise of fiduciary duties in the context of mergers, going private transactions and other transactions involving controlling or majority stockholders, as well as in derivative litigation. He has also advised and represented both acquirers and targets in hostile acquisitions in litigation. Similarly, he has represented both companies and insurgents in proxy contests and litigation arising from proxy contests and other contests for corporate control. Mr. Stone is a member of the bars of the State of New York, the State of Delaware, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Stone clerked for the Honorable Andrew G.T. Moore II of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1986-1987. Mr. Stone is cited as a 'Real Star' in the Delaware Chancery bar by Chambers USA 2006 and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Tulane University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane Law School.

Mr. James N. Benedict serves as Partner, Chairman of Litigation and Arbitration Group, and Head of Securities Litigation Practice Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Prior to joining Milbank, Mr. Benedict was a Senior Partner in the Securities Litigation Practice Group of Clifford Chance (formerly Rogers & Wells) since 1982. He also served as Head of the Global Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice of Clifford Chance and, before that, as Managing Partner for the Americas Region. Mr. Benedict has recently been selected by Lawdragon magazine as one of the 500 leading lawyers in America and also as one of the 500 top trial lawyers in the country. He has also been recognized as a leading litigator by The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA and New York Super Lawyers. Mr. Benedict specializes in complex commercial litigation, with emphasis on multiparty class and derivative suits in state and federal courts throughout the nation. In his more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Benedict has handled a wide variety of trial and appellate civil litigation, involving securities, antitrust and other issues for some of the largest and best known corporations in America, including Citigroup, Inc., MasterCard International Incorporated, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Prudential Financial and The Coca-Cola Company. Mr. Benedict has handled more than 150 major class and shareholder derivative actions alleging violations of state and federal antitrust and securities laws. These include some of the largest class actions in the nation. In addition, Mr. Benedict has had more than 25 years of experience representing mutual fund investment advisers and their affiliates in litigation under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During this period, Mr. Benedict has successfully defended more than 100 excessive management fee suits and other actions mounted against some of the largest investment advisors in the nation, including Alliance Capital, American Century, Capital Research, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Dreyfus, Fidelity, ING, Merrill Lynch, Neuberger Berman, Prudential, and SunAmerica. Mr. Benedict is currently handling numerous class actions and derivative suits resulting from the current mutual fund scandal involving a wide variety of issues, including mutual fund management fees, trading and fund distribution practices, market timing/late trading, soft dollars, revenue sharing, directed brokerage, breakpoints, Rule 12b-1 plans and prospectus disclosure. Mr. Benedict has been active in professional and charitable activities. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, and a member of the Board of Editors of The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, the Securities and Class Action Litigation Report, and the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management. He is also a member of the American Bar Association (Co-Chairman of the Litigation Section's Subcommittee on Litigation under the Investment Company Act of 1940), The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Federal Bar Council, and the New York State Bar Association. He serves as a Trustee of Albany Law School Inc., The. He has served as a Trustee for St. Lawrence University, as President of both his college and law school alumni associations, and as a director of several other charitable and community organizations. Mr. Benedict received a BA magna cum laude in 1971 from St. Lawrence University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD in 1974 from Albany Law School at Union University, where he was Lead Articles Editor of the Albany Law Review. Mr. Benedict regularly lectures at industry conferences and other forums, and has published more than two dozen articles which have appeared in numerous publications, including the Cornell Law Review, New York University Law Review and The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation.

Mr. Norbert Rieger, LL.M. serves as Global Head of Corporate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Mr. Rieger served as a Partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Dr. Rieger has over 14 years experience of corporate transactions (acquisitions, disposals, reorganizations). He joined Milbank in 2004 and is one of the three founding partners of Milbank's Munich office. Dr. Rieger has a broad practice covering all areas of Corporate/M&A and private equity including public M&A and corporate reorganizations (Umwandlungsrecht). In addition, he has a strong tax background which enables him to advise on all corporate law and tax aspects of complex corporate reorganizations/M&A activities. Furthermore, he is well-known for his expertise in public-to-private transactions. He advised on a number of major German transactions including the take private of Honsel AG by The Carlyle Group (the first public-to-private by a financial sponsor in Germany), the statutory merger of public company ProSieben Media and SAT.1 (forming the largest German private TV station), the take private of Edscha AG by way of a squeeze-out of its minority shareholders by The Carlyle Group, the public M&A aspects of the creation of a joint venture between Interbrew S.A. and Spaten-Franziskaner KGaA (forming the largest brewery in the German market), the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG by the Saban Capital Group and its co-sponsors, the sale of The Carlyle Group's investment in Honsel International Technologies to Ripplewood as well as The Carlyle Group's interest in public company BERU AG to BorgWarner. Dr. Rieger has studied law and economics at the Universities of Bayreuth and Augsburg. He was admitted to the German bar in 1989. He holds a doctorate degree of the University of Bayreuth and is a graduate (Master of Laws) of the University of Michigan Law School. Before joining Milbank, he was a partner for eight years at international law firms. He speaks German and English.

Mr. David E. Zeltner serves as Partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He is a senior member of the firm's Corporate Group. He has been a partner at Milbank since 2011. Mr. Zeltner's practice focuses on the representation of both public companies and private equity firms in merger and acquisition transactions, including contests for corporate control. In addition, he focuses on counseling boards of directors, managements and investors on corporate governance and securities matters. Mr. Zeltner is also experienced in joint ventures, club deals and minority investments in public companies. Mr. Zeltner is recognized in The Legal 500 for his M&A work. Mr. Zeltner was named a BTI Client Service All-Star for 2010, one of only 164 lawyers worldwide to receive this distinguished honor. He has co-authored the 'Shareholder Initiatives' chapter of Matthew Benders' Securities Law Techniques.