Avocats en Capital Markets

Ruth Galea

Consultant

GVZH Advocates

Ruth Kirunga

Partner

Kaplan & Stratton Advocates

Ruy Ramos de Toledo Piza

Partner

FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS

Ryan Castillo

Partner

Mayer Brown

Ryan J. Dzierniejko

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Ryan J. Maierson

Ryan Maierson advises companies on M&A and capital markets transactions. He previously served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, as Global Chair of Latham’s Public Company Representation Practice, Co-Chair of the firm’s ESG Task Force, and Chair of the firm’s Houston Corporate Department. Ryan regularly guides public and private companies across industries — with a particular focus on energy, energy transition, and related technologies — on transactions including: Mergers and acquisitions IPOs and other securities offerings Ryan brings more than 25 years of extensive deal-making experience and a broad perspective to his transactional advice. He forges long-term relationships with clients to advance their business objectives while helping them navigate corporate-governance compliance and other public-company requirements. Ryan, a native Houstonian, is a recognized thought leader with particular skill at distilling complex concepts into commercially responsive advice. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he has co-taught “Doing Deals” — a course on M&A practice — since 2008.

Latham & Watkins

Ryan Murr

Ryan currently serves as co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Life Sciences Practice Group, as well as co-partner-in-charge of the firm’s San Francisco office. Ryan focuses on representing operating companies and investors in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostics and medical device industries in connection with securities offerings, corporate governance matters and business combination transactions. He serves as principal outside counsel for publicly-traded companies and venture-backed companies, advising management teams and boards of directors on general corporate matters, securities offerings, SEC reporting, corporate governance, licensing transactions and mergers & acquisitions. He also advises investment funds (private equity funds, hedge funds, venture funds and royalty buyout funds) in connection with investments in life sciences companies and assets.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Ryan Patrone

Ryan J. Patrone focuses his practice on representing issuers and investment banking firms in capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and other primary and secondary equity offerings, as well as investment grade and high‑yield debt offerings. He also has significant experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder activism defense and general corporate matters.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Ryan Ren

Global Law Office

Ryan Tomicic

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Ryan Wessels

Partner

Bowmans

Ryan deFord

Ryan deFord advises companies and financial institutions on a range of corporate finance, securities, and other corporate matters. Ryan serves a diverse mix of clients, including US and foreign investment banks, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ-listed companies, and non-US corporations. He has substantial experience with a broad range of financing transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, and liability management transactions. Ryan represents underwriters, initial purchasers, issuers, and other parties in public and private, secured and unsecured, investment grade, high-yield, and convertible debt and equity offerings in a broad array of industries, including defense, natural resources, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, manufacturing, energy, media and telecommunications, technology, and retail. He also represents investment banks, companies, private equity sponsors, and investors in all manner of other engagements, including SEC, FINRA, NASDAQ, and NYSE filings and compliance, tender offers, and consent solicitations, the purchase or sale of distressed debt, restructurings (including exchange offers), and bridge lending and loan commitments.

Latham & Watkins

Ryota Saito

Partner. His practice focuses on corporate legal matters, including domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions, acquisition finance, and corporate control matters, including hostile takeover defense and activist response. He also advises on corporate governance, compliance, crisis management, and support for companies preparing for IPOs.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Ryszard Manteuffel

Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice, Head of Equity Capital Markets

CMS

Róbert Vícen

Róbert Vícen is a senior associate and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Robert is a versatile lawyer with experience advising on financial regulatory matters (including banking, MiFID 2, PSD2, insurance, financial intermediation, the enforceability of collateral and netting arrangements, crypto-assets), capital markets (bond issues), consumer finance, litigation (including construction, trademark, and consumer litigation), PPP projects and ICT regulatory matters.

Dentons

Rūdolfs Eņģelis

Partner and head of the firm’s Finance & Insurance practice group.

Sorainen

Rūdolfs Vilsons

Senior Associate, Certified Tax Advisor

TEGOS (Formerly TGS Baltic)

SEZİN OKKAN ÇALIŞKAN

Sezin Okkan Çalışkan is the founding partner of Caliskan Okkan Toker. She has a wide range of and notable expertise in capital markets and banking and finance transactions. Her practice area includes on-shore and off-shore based public offerings, bond and other capital market instruments issuance, licenses and operation permissions, compliance and structural requirements, cross boarder capital markets products and services, derivatives, investment funds, financial markets requirements and payment systems. She has a well-earned reputation in financial sector mergers or acquisitions where she has acted as the representative of foreign financial institutions for their incorporation, opening and/or acquisition of Turkish banks, other financial institutions and representative offices as well as transfer of certain business to another financial institution. She also regularly advises financial institutions on regulatory compliance matters and regulatory filings with the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency and the Capital Markets Board. Additionally, she has been acting in various finance transactions covering financing agreements and financial restructuring.

Caliskan Okkan Toker

Sabin Volciuc-Ionescu

Sabin is the managing partner of Volciuc-Ionescu. Chambers highly recommends Sabin for ”tailoring advice so that it can be used in a business context”, while Legal500 praises him for being ”very professional, quick-thinking, and intelligent”. His practice covers a wide range of banking and finance work and capital markets and M&A transactions. Sabin advised on a number of headline transactions in Romania, assisting both domestic and international clients, either financial institutions or corporates. He is focused on financial services, infrastructure and energy sectors and has extensive experience in project finance, sovereign financing, structured finance, corporate, asset and acquisition finance, as well as in M&A and capital markets (including Eurobonds, RON denominated bonds and GDRs). PUBLICATIONS Sabin has written numerous papers on developments in law relating to private international laws, capital markets, securitisation and leasing. He regularly provides insights as a speaker at international conferences and seminars.

Volciuc-Ionescu

Sabrina Ibrisevic

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland

Sabrina Setini

Partner

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Safia Fassi-Fihri

Founding Partner

ADNA

Safiye Ünüvar

Principal Associate

DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Sait Eryılmaz

Sait Eryılmaz heads the finance practice of our Istanbul office. He is specialised in banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on project finance, syndicated lending, restructurings and structured finance. Sait has held a key position at the forefront of Turkish infrastructure and energy transactions in the last decade, taking part in many notable projects including PPPs and other large-scale cross-border transactions. He regularly represents banks, ECAs, Islamic and conventional financial institutions, sovereigns, corporates and private equity firms in a wide array of international project finance transactions, including in PPPs, infrastructure, transportation (roads, ports, railways and airports) energy, oil and gas, utilities and privatisations in Turkey and the wider EMEA region. Sait has extensive banking and finance experience with a particular focus on syndicated lending, project finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance, restructuring, Islamic finance, securitisations and structured finance. Sait also frequently acts for issuers and underwriters in both debt and equity offerings including Eurobond, sukuk, covered bond, green bond and regulatory bank capital offerings in and outside Turkey. Sait has also worked in the Firm's London office.

Clifford Chance