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Usman Sheikh
Usman Sheikh is Chair of the Blockchain, AI & Fintech Practice (Canada). He is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's Toronto office, a member of the Firm's Transactional Practice Group and is also a member of the Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group. He leads the Firm's blockchain team (consisting of over 150 lawyers) globally, and co-leads the Firm's artificial intelligence (AI) team in North America. A highly regarded thought leader on emerging technology, Usman is often called upon globally by heads of governments, as well as key regulatory and governmental bodies, to provide insight and strategic input on legal and regulatory developments relating to emerging technologies, including FinTech, blockchain technology / digital assets, artificial intelligence (AI), Web2/Web3, quantum computing and the internet of things (IoT). Usman was named as one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers" by Canadian Lawyer (2018) and he is the only lawyer in Canada to be ranked Band 1 for FinTech by Chambers for five consecutive years (2020 - 2024). He was also recognized in Toronto Life's The Influentials 2021 list, an annual feature that highlights Toronto's most influential people over the last 12 months. Author of over 25 legal and academic publications, Usman is set to publish The Law of Blockchain Technology (Thomson Carswell) in 2025. As a global thought leader on emerging technology and digital transformation, Usman has addressed the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He has also co-lectured with the heads of blockchain for Nasdaq and the TMX, and has also presented to the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) (then, IIROC and the MFDA), the Law Society of Ontario (LSO), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA), and several other regulatory and industry organizations on a range of topics including AI regulatory / legal developments, AI governance frameworks, decentralized finance (DeFi), crypto custody, digital wallets, NFTs, crypto exchanges (crypto asset trading platforms), the metaverse and more. Since 2019, Usman has also been serving as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto (Faculty of Law), teaching a course entitled "Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Law."
Baker McKenzie
Ute Krudewagen
Partner; Chair of DLA Piper's International Employment Practice
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Vadym Kizlenko
Attorney at Law, Counsel, Insolvency Receiver, Co-Head of Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
Ilyashev & Partners
Valerio Vitelli
Managing Associate
Addleshaw Goddard
Valery Jurado
Law Clerk
Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas
Vanessa Foncke
Partner
Jones Day
Veliko Savov
Counsel, Head of TMT
CMS
Veronika Weber
Veronika Weber is an Senior Associate in Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises on disputes in various areas of Commercial Law. She advises and represents our national and international clients from various industries both in court proceedings and out of court. She focuses in particular on contractual and corporate disputes. When providing legal advice, she attaches great importance to a structured approach in order to find an appropriate and economic solution for our clients.
Fieldfisher
Vicente Sáenz de Santa María
Associate
DLA Piper Chile
Vicky Koutsopoulou
Counsel Vicky specializes in the fields of M&A, Corporate and Insolvency & Restructuring, while she also provides legal advice on Banking and Finance matters. She has been involved in a number of M&A deals, corporate restructurings and corporate transformations providing legal advice to creditors, debtors and potential investors in the context of pre-bankruptcy and bankruptcy proceedings and other complex financial transactions. Vicky also provides legal advice on regulatory compliance across a variety of industries and supports investment firms and funds on corporate lending. Vicky has further been ranked as a Recommended Lawyer by EMEA Legal 500 2023 Edition.
Papapolitis & Papapolitis
Victor Manuel Frías
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, S.C.
Victoria Bagot
Partner
Jones Walker LLP
Victoria Lee
Partner; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Technology and Life Sciences Licensing and Commercial Transactions; Managing Partner of DLA Piper's Silicon Valley Office
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Virginia Henley
Virginia heads the firm’s charities team and plays an active role in the education sector group. She advises charities, universities and schools, and a wide range of not-for-profit organisations, on core legal, regulatory and governance issues. Her specialisms include charity governance, fundraising, trustee training, charity mergers, charity registrations and incorporations, commercial arrangements, and serious incident reporting. Her clients range from charities of all sizes to community interest companies, universities and Oxbridge colleges. She works closely with the firm’s private client and business services teams, particularly on real estate, employment and corporate matters.
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
Vitor Stern
Partner
Trench Rossi Watanabe
Vladislav Antonov
Senior Associate
Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov
Volodymyr Omelchenko
Associate
CMS Ukraine
W. Cleland Dade
Cle Dade advises clients on a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and insolvencies. He also provides counsel to clients in connection with the formation of joint ventures and the implementation of corporate control arrangements. His recent experience includes acquisitions and divestitures of natural gas and liquids pipelines, gathering systems, storage terminals and related logistics facilities, as well as acquisitions and dispositions of manufacturing, distribution and industrial services companies in a variety of industries.
Bracewell LLP
Wai Choy
Wai Choy is Co-Head of Proskauer’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Group, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group, and a leader of the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain & Digital Assets practices. He has deep experience in technology, media, intellectual property, and corporate transactions and counseling, and is a trusted advisor to operating companies, asset managers, and other enterprises across a wide range of industries, including technology, media, entertainment, private equity, services, advertising, sports, blockchain and digital assets, health care, and life sciences. As the media industry has evolved, Wai has represented content distributors and programmers for nearly 15 years in a wide range of complex distribution and licensing deals across all technologies, platforms, and business models, as well as in agreements for the development and integration of cutting-edge technologies and features. In mergers and acquisitions, Wai: Structures and negotiates key transaction documents, including purchase, merger, transition services, and intellectual property license agreements, and leads legal due diligence; Advises on intellectual property, technology, privacy, data security, and contractual matters; and Helps portfolio companies optimize operations and execute value-creating strategies in preparation for a sale or post-closing. He also advises companies on a broad range of day-to-day legal and business matters, including commercial arrangements, intellectual property, joint ventures, new product and service development, and corporate and strategic matters. As co-head of Proskauer’s Technology Strategy Committee and a leader of the Firm’s Artificial Intelligence Practice, Wai advises both the Firm and clients on artificial intelligence policy, issues, and strategy. Prior to joining Proskauer, Wai worked in the Business & Legal Affairs department of Marvel Studios in Los Angeles and Marvel Entertainment in New York. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Acting, Wai brings a valuable creative perspective to his legal practice.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Walid El Daly
Association Partner
MHR & Partners in association with White & Case LLP
Wallace K. Lightsey
Wallace is an experienced trial and appellate attorney, with over 60 jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast, and approximately 100 bench trials, jury trials, and arbitration trials, as well as numerous appeals in the South Carolina appellate courts and the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits. His practice involves complex securities, corporate, and intellectual property cases, as well as news media and First Amendment disputes. In the area of First Amendment litigation, he has represented Facebook Inc., Time Inc., NBC, The New York Times Company, Forbes, The Associated Press, and Pulitzer Broadcasting, as well as many local and state newspapers and broadcasters. He also has deep experience litigating disputes over intellectual property — such as trademark, copyright, and trade secrets — and in recent years has been lead counsel in copyright lawsuits involving close to a billion dollars at issue. In 2004, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, an organization composed of a small percentage of the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and Canada. And in 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the most prestigious group of appellate practitioners in the country. Wallace is actively involved in matters of professional ethics, and served as the Chair of the South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct from 1997 through 2004. Building on his substantial trial and courtroom experience, Wallace has been certified by the American Arbitration Association to its Roster of Neutrals for commercial arbitration, and has served as panel chair, panel member, and sole arbitrator in a number of arbitrations involving large, complex disputes as well as relatively simple ones. Unlike many judges, Wallace likes helping to resolve discovery disputes and is available for appointment as a special discovery master in lawsuits where the parties anticipate having to deal with difficult discovery matters.
Wyche P.A.
Warren Allan
Warren Allan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Warren advises European sponsors on raising investment funds, and on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of fund interests and manager-led liquidity solutions. Warren also advises investors making direct and indirect co-investments. Recent representative matters include advising: Secondary purchases and sales of fund interests Access Capital Partners on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests Aberdeen Standard Investments on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests A family office on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests to five purchasers A French governmental institution on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests SwanCap Partners on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests GP-led liquidity solutions Palamon Capital Partners on a tender offer to investors in two early vintage funds to a consortium of five buyer groups BlueGem Capital Partners on a GP-led asset-level liquidity offering, involving the transfer of remaining assets in a fund managed by BlueGem to a newly established continuation fund A European alternative asset manager on a GP-led liquidity offering to investors in five existing fund vehicles, with a primary staple Fund Formation One Peak on the formation of its €443 million European growth equity fund, One Peak Growth II SCSp A UK fund manager on the formation of a £600 million mid-market private equity fund CGS Management on the formation of CGS IV, a CHF 240 million private equity fund VGC Partners on its first consumer and media technology growth capital fund Co-investments An infrastructure co-investment fund on a number of direct and indirect infrastructure co-investments
Proskauer Rose LLP
Wayne Katz
Wayne Katz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department with over 30 years of experience handling transactions in the sports industry, on behalf leagues, teams, owners, financial institutions, universities and media companies. Wayne's league experience includes the representation of the National Basketball Association, Women’s National Basketball Association and National Hockey League in their various corporate matters, including team ownership transfers and team financings. Major transactions he has worked on for the leagues include: - NBA’s approval of the recent sales of the Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks - NBA’s grant of expansion franchises to Toronto, Vancouver and Charlotte - NHL’s grant of expansion franchises to Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus and Minnesota - NBA’s purchase and sale of the New Orleans Hornets - Creation and expansion of the NBA’s $7.8 billion League-wide credit facility - Formation of the WNBA and NBA G League - NBA’s resolution of the Donald Sterling and Robert Sarver affairs - Reformation by Fox Sports of the United States Football League (USFL) and merger with the XFL - WNBA’s issuance of preferred interests to a group of prominent investors Wayne’s representation of teams and owners includes acquisitions and sales, financings, governing agreements, and commercial arrangements such as naming rights and concessions agreements.Significant transactions include: - Purchases by Jeffrey Lurie of the Philadelphia Eagles, Woody Johnson of the New York Jets and Jimmy Haslam of the Cleveland Browns - Purchase by Jeffrey Loria of the Montreal Expos; the simultaneous sale of the Expos to MLB and purchase of the Florida Marlins from John Henry; and the sale of the Marlins to a group led by Derek Jeter - Purchase by the Lerner family of the Washington Nationals - Sale by Cliff Viner of the NHL Florida Panthers - Purchase by Red Bull GmbH of the MLS MetroStars (now known as the New York Red Bulls) - Sale by The Ralph Wilson Trust of the Buffalo Bills Wayne has extensive experience with stadium and arena development, financing and lease transactions, including representing: - NBA in approving all team arena leases and financings - Miami Marlins in the development of Marlins Park in downtown Miami - NBA in its temporary relocation of the New Orleans Hornets to Oklahoma City - Red Bull New York in the development of a new stadium in Harrison, New Jersey - Philadelphia Eagles in its financing of Lincoln Financial Field - New York Jets in its financing and commercial arrangements for MetLife Stadium - Minnesota Vikings in its lease and financing of U.S. Bank Stadium - Cleveland Browns in its stadium renovation financing - Philadelphia 76ers in its proposed development of a new arena in downtown Philadelphia - Washington Nationals in its lease with the District of Columbia
Proskauer Rose LLP
Wei Gao
Partner
Haiwen & Partners