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Bjørn Åge Hamre

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Bjørn-Ivar Bendiksen

Partner

SANDS

Bjørnar Alterskjær

Expertise in public procurement and state aid matters. EU law, EEA law, State aid law, Competition law, Public procurement law, free movement of goods, services, labour and capital, business law. Bjørnar has been Deputy Director of the legal department in the EFTA Surveillance Authority and was also for an extended period Acting Director of the department. He has outstanding experience in litigation before the EFTA and the EU Courts, having represented the EFTA Surveillance Authority in over 20 cases in almost all fields of law covered by the EEA Agreement and the EU treaties. Several of the cases concerned questions within the field of state aid and public procurement. He has also worked extensively with questions pertaining to the free movement of goods, services, labour and capital, in addition to the rules on establishment, competition law, labour law and financial services. Further he has acted as Hearing Officer for competition cases in the EFTA Surveillance Authority. Alterskjær has been Manging Partner in Kluge since 2018.

CMS Kluge

Blair Adams

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Blair Connelly

Blair Connelly is Global Vice Chair of the Securities and M&A Litigation Practice and former Co-Chair of the Litigation Department in the New York office. He focuses his practice on M&A litigation, securities lawsuits, and corporate governance disputes. Blair has represented directors, officers, boards, committees, corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in numerous high-profile merger and takeover litigations, securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, and complex internal investigations. He has successfully litigated some of the largest stockholder lawsuits involving mergers and acquisitions and other corporate governance issues. Blair has argued and won precedent-setting decisions in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Supreme Court, and other jurisdictions on cutting-edge issues of corporate law. He also leverages his expertise to advise clients as deals are being put together to avoid litigation pitfalls. Blair is widely recognized as a premier legal practitioner in securities and M&A litigation. He regularly provides market leadership, recently discussing the state of Delaware’s exacting entire fairness standard and corporate litigation trends with The American Lawyer and Bloomberg Law. He has authored articles for Bloomberg Law exploring securities litigation trends during Covid-19, as well as Thomson Reuters Westlaw discussing recent Delaware Supreme Court decisions. Blair has served on the firm’s Finance Committee, Associates Committee, Paralegal Administration Committee, and its Training and Career Enhancement (TACE) Committee, where he ran the firm’s Deposition and Trial Advocacy training programs.

Latham & Watkins

Blair Johnson

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Blair Kaminsky

Partner

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Blair Keefe

A preeminent figure in the financial services industry, Blair has decades of experience advising Canada’s leading financial institutions on regulatory matters and industry best practices, and has acted as counsel on some of the country’s most complex and novel issues in his field. Blair is co-head of the firm’s Financial Services, Bank Regulatory and Insurance Regulatory practices, and is co-head of the Payments and Cards Practice. He advises on corporate and regulatory issues relating to financial institutions, as well as on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance in the financial services industry. Blair is known for his in-depth understanding of all matters relating to the Bank Act. In addition, he has extensive experience in insurance and bank regulatory matters, banking and debt finance as well as payments and cards.

Torys

Blair Robinson

Blair Robinson is a partner in the Employment Law Department based in the firm’s New York office. Blair represents clients on a broad range of labor and employment matters, including class and collective actions, high-stakes individual plaintiff litigation, and sensitive investigations involving senior executives.

Paul Hastings LLP

Blair T. Thetford

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Blair Wassman

Managing Associate

Brahams Dutt Badrick French LLP

Blair Yorke-Slader KC

Vice Chair and Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

Blaire Cahn

Blaire Cahn is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Global Restructuring & Insolvency Group based in the Firm's New York office.

Baker McKenzie

Blaise DELTOMBE

Partner

Joffe & Associés

Blaise Gaymer

Senior Associate in the Media and Corporate and Commercial departments at Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP. Blaise advises clients on a broad range of commercial issues in the media and entertainment sector, primarily surrounding the development, production, distribution and exploitation of all forms of content, including feature films and television programmes in traditional media and on digital media networks. Her clients include production companies, publishers, artists, talent agents and photographers. She has particular experience in advising on the sale and acquisition of companies in the media space and investment arrangements for new companies.

Simons Muirhead Burton

Blaise Smith

Blaise is a partner in Weightmans' large loss team in Leeds. He handles catastrophic injury and major property damage claims for insurers. He has 42 years' experience in all aspects of personal injury and insurance litigation. He has particular experience in head and spinal injury claims, fatal accidents and policy disputes and fire claims. Blaise was a Medical Working Party member for the IUA UK Bodily Injury Awards Study (2003). Blaise has handled fatal and catastrophic injury claims arising not only from accidents on the road, in the workplace and from defective premises and products, but also from hot air ballooning, gliding, paragliding, horse riding, a miniature train ride and 'welly-wanging'. He also handled multi-party litigation arising out of the Bradford fire, the loss of the Herald of Free Enterprise, the Hillsborough stadium disaster, the Myodil pharmaceutical claims and the Dingle Tunnel collapse. Other notable cases include litigation arising out of the finding of the Middleham Jewel and the fire which destroyed the Football Association’s former headquarters at Lancaster Gate. Other fire claims include sauna, gym, school, restaurant, supermarket, home and factory fires. Reported cases include: Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] 1 A.C 310 (liability for psychiatric injury) Crabtree v Wilson [1993] PIQR Q24, CA (assessing damages for dependency); and Blair-Ford v CRS Adventures [2012] EWHC 2360 (QB) (risk assessment, foreseeability, Compensation Act, section 1) Thewlis v Groupama [2012] EWHC 3 (TCC) ( CPR part 36) Whitehead v Bruce and others [2013] EWCA Civ 229 ( RTA apportionment of liability; Court of Appeal)

Weightmans LLP

Blake Cooper

Partner

Buchalter Law Firm

Blake Davis

Blake Davis represents clients in high-stakes patent infringement and trade secret litigation in federal courts and the International Trade Commission. Blake leverages his background in electrical engineering and significant trial experience to distill highly complex technologies into simple, courtroom-ready concepts. He has represented clients in a broad range of technologies and industries, including: Semiconductor fabrication and packaging Wireless charging Organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology Speech and video coding standards Image processing RF transmitters and receivers RF generators and matching networks Multimedia distribution systems Medical devices and vascular implants Blake has experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in all phases of federal court and International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation, USPTO inter partes review proceedings, and Federal Circuit appeals. Blake maintains an active pro bono practice, including working with asylum applicants in removal proceedings in immigration court and advising on veterans’ rights.

Latham & Watkins

Blake Gilson

Blake Gilson is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Structured Credit group. His practice focuses on structured finance transactions involving insurance capital, including rated note feeders, collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), and other vehicles tailored to support investment in private fund strategies. Blake represents fund sponsors, institutional investors, and underwriters across the structured credit landscape, offering strategic guidance throughout the lifecycle of complex transactions. He is highly skilled in navigating complex, multi-party negotiations and liaising with rating agencies to ensure alignment with both market dynamics and regulatory frameworks.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Blake Marks-Dias

Blake Marks-Dias is a trial lawyer, mediator, and co-managing partner at Corr Cronin. His practice focuses on high stakes matters that, when necessary, must be tried. He is certified by the internationally recognized Straus Institute For Dispute Resolution and offers mediation services alongside his litigation practice. Blake has been profiled several times: Super Lawyers Magazine: Shoring Up the Safety Net The Trial Network: Meet a Network Member: Blake Marks-Dias King County Bar Association: The Debater* He is consistently recognized by his clients and peers for his dedication to clients and the community. This includes being listed among the Top 100 lawyers in Washington by Super Lawyers each year since 2016. He has also been recognized in Best Lawyers each year since 2022. In college, Blake earned the award of the top individual debater in the nation. He and his partner finished second in the 1995 national tournament (the final round transcript is published in one of the leading college speech and communications textbooks: Freeley and Steinberg, Argumentation and Debate (12th ed. 2009)). He continues to be a thought leader, presenting on subjects such as persuasion, class action trends, and more at conferences, training sessions, and industry events. Blake is also actively engaged in the community, serving as Chair of the Akin Board of Trustees, as well as firm liaison to several local, regional, and national community and legal organizations. * Originally published in the February 2016 issue of King County Bar Association Bar Bulletin. Reprinted with permission of King County Bar Association.

Corr Cronin, L.L.P.

Blake Rohrbacher

Blake focuses his practice on litigation, as well as advisory and transactional matters, relating to Delaware corporations and alternative entities. Described as “a genius, the best writer in Delaware” (The Legal 500), Blake litigates corporate control, governance, M&A, fiduciary, statutory, and contractual disputes in the Delaware courts. He also advises corporate boards and board committees regarding governance, fiduciary duties, and mergers and acquisitions. He has particular expertise in Delaware law regarding nonprofit and nonstock corporations. Blake serves on the Court of Chancery Rules Committee by appointment of the chancellor. He served on the drafting subcommittee responsible for the 2010 nonstock amendments to Delaware’s General Corporation Law. He also assisted in drafting the Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act. In 2023, Blake was appointed to the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council of the Third Judicial Circuit. Some of Blake’s first-chair litigation representations include Oracle, Boeing, BlackBerry, Papa John’s, theBalm Cosmetics, Standard General, AmTrust Financial Services, Quiznos, AssuredPartners, KKR & Co., Fox News Network, Banco Santander, RBC Capital Markets, Synchronoss Technologies, US Mobile LLC, Verdesian Life Sciences, 24 Hour Fitness, Riverstone National, Caraustar Industries, Dentons, Roper Technologies, and Verizon. A frequent writer and speaker on topics of Chancery litigation and Delaware corporate law, Blake is co-editor of The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations, a co-author of Delaware Nonstock Corporations, a co-author of Fundamentals of Corporate Governance: A Guide for Directors and Corporate Counsel, and a co-author of The Practitioner’s Guide to the Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act. He is also the author of Delaware Uniform Citation, published by the Litigation Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Arbitration & Mediation Corporate & Chancery Litigation Corporate Transactions Corporate Governance Mergers & Acquisitions

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Blake Sharpton

Butler Snow LLP

Blake Shaw

Partner

Ironbridge Legal

Blake Wilner

Senior Associate

Clintons