Compliance lawyers

Renata Zuccolo

Partner

Mattos Filho

René Grafunder

Dr. René Grafunder is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Co-Head of the Competition and Antitrust group in Germany. He advises clients on EU and German competition matters, including merger control, compliance and state aid. René has substantial experience dealing with cartel, abuse and merger control proceedings before European and national competition authorities and courts. His comprehensive sector expertise in particular covers health care and life sciences, banking, postal services as well as manufacturing. René is a lecturer on EU Competition Law at the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie and the University of Potsdam. He regularly publishes on EU and national competition matters. Before joining Dentons, he worked for another leading law firm in Düsseldorf, Brussels and Beijing. René studied in Potsdam, Paris and Freiburg as well as at the College of Europe in Bruges and clerked at the German Federal Cartel Office.

Dentons

Reto Ferrari-Visca

Partner. He specializes in representing clients in complex regulatory, civil, and criminal proceedings before state courts as well as criminal and administrative authorities in Switzerland and abroad. He has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations and advises corporate clients on all aspects of compliance, with a particular focus on financial market and white-collar crime. He also has broad expertise in confidentiality and data protection laws and assists clients in cross-border data protection matters.

Homburger

Reto Jacobs

Partner

Walder Wyss Ltd.

Reynaldo Vizcarra

Reynaldo is a member of the Firm’s Corporate and Transactional Practice Group. He is a professor at the University Anáhuac del Norte where he teaches foreign investment as part of the master of laws program, and an instructor at Universidad Panamericana's Baker McKenzie Seminar. He joined the Mexico City office in 1986, handling foreign investments, banking and finance matters and international agreements. He also worked in the Chicago office's Latin America Practice Group, advising on investments and acquisitions in Latin America (1996-1997). In 2000, Reynaldo co-founded the Firm’s Guadalajara office, where he led the Banking & Finance Practice Group. In August 2005, he transferred to Baker McKenzie's Cancun office as a founding member and director mainly handling tourism and real estate projects. In 2009, he transferred back to the Mexico City office, where he was local managing partner for four years and thereafter became national managing partner of the Firm in Mexico until August 2018.

Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Ria Venaki

Senior Associate Ria is a senior associate with the Firm which she joined in 2006. Her practice is focused on the area of Life Sciences, providing clients in highly regulated industries with support on varied and complex legal issues. Ria advises clients active in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, healthcare, medical devices and technologies and biotechnology sectors on issues such as product liability, clinical trials procedures, public procurement tenders, brand protection and regulatory risk, compliance and filings. She also advises on packaging, labelling, distribution and advertising. Ria advises on commercial agreements, including joint ventures, agency and distribution agreements and undertakes company formation and ongoing corporate governance. She contributes articles to legal periodicals on pharmaceutical related issues and in 2019 completed a course on Advanced Competitive Strategy authorized by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and offered through Coursera.

Bernitsas

Ricardo Calderón Mendoza

Partner

Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.

Ricardo Luiz Iasi Moura

Partner

Duarte Garcia, Serra Netto e Terra Advogados

Ricardo Velasco-Cuesta

Partner

Pérez Bustamante & Ponce

Riccardo Caselle

Senior counsel Riccardo Caselle specialises in white‑collar crime, government investigations and enforcement actions, international sanctions and export control, corporate internal investigations, as well as matters involving Legislative Decree 231/2001, compliance and corporate governance.

BonelliErede

Riccardo Guarino

Counsel

CBA Studio Legale e Tributario

Richard Arnot

Richard is a specialist in licensing and regulatory law, with over 30 years of experience representing leading brands and individuals across England and Wales. He acts for pub companies, nightclub operators, national supermarkets, independent convenience stores, hoteliers, restaurateurs, local authorities, and police. Richard has been sole licensing lawyer to Co-operative Group Food for over 14 years and has also advised clients such as TGI Fridays, Hotel du Vin, Malmaison, Inn Collection Group, and Lane 7. In regulatory matters, Richard advises and represents clients in investigations, compliance, and prosecutions. He has acted for both defence and enforcement bodies, including the DTI and SIA, and previously served as Deputy Force Solicitor at Northumbria Police. He is a skilled court advocate with particular experience in complex enforcement matters involving fire safety, environmental breaches, health and safety failings, food safety, firearms, and commercial fishing and agricultural enforcement proceedings.

Keystone Law

Richard Follis

Richard Follis was appointed Shoosmiths first General Counsel on 1 May 2021. Reporting to the CEO, he has particular responsibility for compliance, quality and risk. He is the firm's Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and Money Laundering Compliance Officer. He is also tasked with scoping the firm's GC function and establishing a team to oversee governance and enterprise risk management in support of the firm's ambitious growth plans. Richard joined Shoosmiths in 2006 as a Partner and head of clinical negligence. He became a board member in 2013 on appointment as Practice Group Head of the firm's Access Legal consumer offering. Latterly Richard became head of our Personal Advisory Division. For very many years a noted practitioner in the field of clinical negligence, he was ranked as 'Senior Statesperson' in the 2020 edition of Chambers UK. Richard served as President of the Birmingham Law Society in 2006 and, having been an AvMA panel member since 1991, was appointed an Honorary Panel Member in 2021.

Shoosmiths LLP

Richard Follis

Richard Follis was appointed Shoosmiths first General Counsel on 1 May 2021. Reporting to the CEO, he has particular responsibility for compliance, quality and risk. He is the firm's Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and Money Laundering Compliance Officer. He is also tasked with scoping the firm's GC function and establishing a team to oversee governance and enterprise risk management in support of the firm's ambitious growth plans. Richard joined Shoosmiths in 2006 as a Partner and head of clinical negligence. He became a board member in 2013 on appointment as Practice Group Head of the firm's Access Legal consumer offering. Latterly Richard became head of our Personal Advisory Division. For very many years a noted practitioner in the field of clinical negligence, he was ranked as 'Senior Statesperson' in the 2020 edition of Chambers UK. Richard served as President of the Birmingham Law Society in 2006 and, having been an AvMA panel member since 1991, was appointed an Honorary Panel Member in 2021.

Shoosmiths LLP

Richard Gallagher

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Richard Ghueldre

Richard Ghueldre is a partner in the Insurance team in Paris. His practice focuses mainly on insurance and reinsurance law. He regularly advises a large number of traditional players in the insurance sector, banking and financial operators, industrial groups and service companies. He has extensive experience in the regulation of insurance companies and intermediaries (corporate/mergers & acquisitions, compliance), the design and distribution of insurance (life and non-life) and reinsurance products, insurance and reinsurance litigation (court and arbitration) and disciplinary proceedings before the ACPR. Richard has recently been involved in a number of acquisitions for major players in the insurance sector, as well as in various strategic legal disputes, particularly following class actions. He has also been involved in disciplinary proceedings before the ACPR's Enforcement Committee and in mediation and arbitration proceedings, notably as an arbitrator. He is a graduate of Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne (Doctorat en droit), Associate Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine, Co-director of the Institut des Assurances de Paris-Dauphine and has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2002.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Richard Lock

Senior Partner, Head of Corporate/M&A Group

Lakatos, Köves and Partners

Richard Owens

Litigation & Trial Partner

Latham & Watkins

Richard Prowse

Consultant

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Richard Roeder

Dr. Richard Roeder is a partner in Willkie’s German practice. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Willkie’s Global Trade & Investment, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and Environmental, Social & Governance practice groups. Richard focuses on international trade, compliance and white collar investigations, as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments. He advises clients from various industries in the areas of sanctions, export control, supply chain, anti-money-laundering and anti-corruption compliance. His clients include in particular financial services and insurance companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, oil and gas, healthcare and information technology sectors.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Richard Thorpe

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Rick van \'t Hullenaar

Jones Day

Riikka Rannikko

Partner

Hannes Snellman

Rikisuke Yamanaka

Partner

Ushijima & Partners