Global Leading Lawyers 2024

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GLOBAL LEADING LAWYERS
2024

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ABR Solicitors
Criminal Defense Law Firm of the Year – UK
Cannons Law Practice
Aviation Law Firm of the Year – UK
Dr Colin Ong Legal Services
Arbitration Law Firm of the Year - Brunei
Fakhoury Law Group
Immigration Law Firm of the Year – USA
Fiebinger Polak Leon Attorney at Law
International Transactions Law Firm of the Year - Austria
Fretes & Arieu Attorney at Law
Mining Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
Glatzova & Co
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic
Grispo Abogados
Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
Gurlich & Co
Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic
Kambourav & Partners
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year - Bulgaria
Law Office of Ramni Taneja
Constitutional Law Firm of the Year – India
Lewis & Co
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year - France
Neves, Soares & Battendieri
Tax Law Firm of the Year – Brazil
Preu Bohlig & Partner
International Pharmaceutical Law Firm of the Year - Germany

Ramos e Zuanon Advogados
Bankruptcy Law Firm of the Year – Brazil
Savin Martinet Associes
Acquisitions & Due Diligence Law Firm of the Year – France
Schlast & Partner
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year - Germany
Scott & Scott LLP
Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA
Spadafora De Rosa Law
Tax Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Spier Harben
Max Blitt QC
Child abduction Lawyer of the Year – Canada
Studio Legale Sutti
International Commercial Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year – Italy
Swiss Financiers Inc
Initial Public Offering Firm of the Year – USA
Tassos Papdopoulos & Associates LLC
Public Procurement Law Firm of the Year - Cyprus
VVBG
Boutique Law Firm of the Year - Belgium
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Banking & Investment Law Firm of the Year – USA
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year – USA
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – USA
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
David A. Katz
Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year – USA
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Asset Management Law Firm of the Year - France
Zvolsky
Litigation Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic

International Commercial Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year –
Italy
Studio Legale Sutti was founded in 1953 by Dr. Angelo Sutti, Knight of the Italian Republic, as an
Italian law firm with a strong focus on company-commercial law and intellectual property &
competition law offering its services to businesses and entrepreneurs. In the late seventies the Firm
began an uninterrupted growth cycle, eventually making it one of the largest Italian firms and in
fact a multiprefessional practice.
In the mid-eighties, SLS's practice became increasingly involved in the international arena, and
began interviewing foreign candidates in its recruitment operations. This also led the Firm to
establish its two representation offices abroad in 1992, namely in London and Tokyo, offering the
Firm's services to the local markets; and to participate actively to the life of a number of foreign
chambers of commerce and trade associations in Italy.
The domestic operation of SLS, which had already included two regional offices serving Northern
Italy, respectively situated in the area of Bergamo and Brescia (in Trescore Balneario) and in the
area of Pavia and the southern Milanese province (in Abbiategrasso), was significantly reinforced in
1993, when the Firm merged with Monti & Partners - another well-known Milan-based law firm
active since 1927 in international investments and trade matters, as well as banking and financial
law -, and moved its Head Office to the current prestigious premises in Milan, via Montenapoleone
8. New Italian offices were established in the same period, respectively in Rome; Monza; and Genoa,
where SLS was honoured to be joined by the partners and associates of Studio Pennisi. In the
meantime, SLS had become both a multidisciplinary and an international firm, having welcomed
patent attorneys and tax advisors ("commercialisti") to its ranks and established the single largest
practice of South-Eastern Europe (in terms of human resources, territorial coverage and turnover).
In particular, further to mergers with local leading players, the Firm started operating its own
offices in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), Romania, Croatia, increasingly representing a point of
reference with respect to investment and trade involving that part of the world.
Stefano Sutti was born in Milan, Italy, in 1960 and studied law (JD, 1983,cum laude; LLM, 1985) and
business administration at the Catholic University of Milan. He is a member of the Bar of Milan and
of the Italian Supreme Court Bar.
In 1980 he started working as a paralegal for Studio Legale Sutti, one of the largest independent
Italian law firms and the only large Italian firm with a strong focus on contentious and para-

contentious work, which was founded in 1953 by Angelo Sutti, knight of the Italian Republic, in turn
one of the top Italian litigators of his generation. An associate since 1984, Stefano Sutti became
partner in 1989 and then managing partner in 1992, and promoted the establishment of the firm's
offices in London, Tokyo and Sofia.
His specialty is, and has always been, international disputes and complex corporate cases (especially
M&A-related). However, recently Dr Sutti has been requested, often by domestic and foreign
colleagues on behalf of their clients, to assist and to plead, in Italian, English and French, in all kinds
of litigation, arbitration and mediation, namely in civil, commercial and criminal courts; in appeals;
before tax, antitrust and trade authorities; before administrative, regulatory and disciplinary
tribunals; and in mock trials for demonstrative or educational purposes.
A number of high-profile matters dealt with by Stefano Sutti that have obtained widespread
media coverage have also involved the hi-tech sector. His reputation in this field was further
confirmed a few years ago by the invitation to represent Italy in the EU Commission's European
Information Technology Conference 1996 in Brussels, where he participated in a successful
demonstrative trial entitled Trading in Cyberspace: The Legal Frontier.Stefano Sutti is regularly
recommended among Italian leading counsel by most independent sources, including: the Dispute
Resolution Contacts Handbook, the prestigious Guide to Foreign Law Firms edited by the American
Bar Association, and in the litigation section of European Legal Experts.
Dr Sutti and his dispute resolution team within Studio Legale Sutti are also consistently mentioned
in Global Counsel 3000, Legal 500 in Europe, and the IFLR 1000, and were the official contributor
for Italy to the International Law Office Arbitration Newsletter.
Besides his participation to the work of the relevant committees of AIJA, UAE, IBA and IPBA,
Stefano Sutti is a professor of international litigation at the University of Padua, one of the oldest
law schools in the world, is a member of the editorial board of The European Lawyer, and is the
author of a large number of articles and essays, many of which deal with various aspects of civil
litigation in Italy, trial and appeal strategy, comparative procedural law, and cybercrime.In spite of
his substantial caseload, Dr Sutti also plays an active role in Studio Legale Sutti's continuing
education programmes aimed at developing the litigation and advocacy skills of its members
(some of whom hold in turn academic positions in the fields of civil and criminal procedure).
These programmes include discussing subjects ranging from the Harvard risk tree analysis to
Myamoto Musashi's Book of the Five Rings, from neuro-linguistic programming to rhetoric to
strategy to the theory of games.
Contact Details:
Studio Legale Sutti
http://www.sutti.com
ada.cattaneo@sutti.com
Headquarters:
Via Montenapoleone 8
20121 Milan, Italy
Tel. +39 02 76204.1
Fax +39 02 76204805

Max Blitt QC
Child Abduction Lawyer of the Year – Canada
Max Blitt, Q.C. has personally been involved in assisting clients and legal counsel to recover
children that have been abducted by parents and relatives to other Provinces in Canada,
the United States, Poland, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, South Africa,
Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Australia, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Jordan, Bangladesh, China,
Japan, Turkey, and Nigeria.
Professional Experience:
1974-1975
Wolfman & Company. Articling Position Practiced Criminal Law (Provincial,
Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal), Civil Law, Family Law, Wills and Estates.
1975-1985
Karasick, Blitt and Company, Partner
Set up firm and expanded to four lawyers. Practiced in above areas of law, with greater
emphasis on family law and real estate.
1985-1989
Blitt, Lirenman and Company. Senior
Associate. Practiced heavily in family law area and real estate.
1989-Present
Spier Harben (formerly Spier Prasow and
Blitt merged with Harben Aaron & Rynd). Practiced civil litigation (emphasis on family
law, personal injury and general), real estate, wills and estates.
2013
Appointed Queen’s Counsel
Contribution to the community:
Child Find Canada - Volunteer Director,
1995-1997
Child Find Alberta - President, 1993-1995
Child Find Alberta - Past President, 1995-1997
Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter -Board Member
Canadian Cancer Society - Volunteer
Calgary Zoo, Trustee, 1999-2008
Calgary Zoo Foundation, Past-Chairman
Calgary Legal Guidance - Lawyer Volunteer
Contribution to legal profession:
Appointed to Legal Aid Appeals Committee 2014;
Current Volunteer Calgary Legal Guidance;

Past Volunteer University of Calgary Student Legal Services;
Court Appointed Dispute Resolution Officer 2006 to Present;
Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (Bar Admission Course) 2008-Present -
Negotiations Assessment and Advocacy Instructor
ASSIST Volunteer 2012 to Present
February 2016 Volunteer Judge for University of Calgary Law Students Mock Civil Trial at
Court of Queen’s Bench, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Contribution to legal scholarship through teaching or research:
Speaker, Child Find Alberta 1989 Conference, Legal Aspects of Child Abduction.
Panellist, CFCN TV Re: Child Abductions.
Canadian Bar Association, Mid-Winter Meeting Organizing Committee - Legal Aspects of
Child Abduction.
November 12, 2000 Member of Canadian Delegation Second International Forum on
Parental Child Abduction (Hague Convention Cases), Washington, D.C.
October/November 2003 Article contained in Law Now, University of Alberta,
International Child Abductions.
December 2003 Speaker, AMECO (Association of Missing and Exploited Children's
Organization) Case Manager Training Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
April 2005 October Speaker Northwest Coalition of Missing Children Investigators and
Professionals Symposium, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
May/June 2005 Speaker, Prairie Regional Our Missing Children Conference, Canada Border
Services Agency, Calgary, Alberta.
2007 Washington, D.C. attended the 44th Annual Conference of Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts (AFCC); "Judicial Officers Forum: International Child Abduction" and
"International Child Abduction: risk Factors and Prevention."
March 2009 Ottawa - Conference Presenter, Department of Foreign Affairs, Overview of
International Children's Issues.
09/10 Tokyo, Japan - Member of Canadian Delegation, Study Session on the 1980 Hague
Convention, Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Hosted by Canadian Embassy.
September 2009 Ismaili’s [Muslim] International Mediation Training – Vancouver.
November 2009 Mount Royal University - Conference - "Early Adverse Experience and
Childhood Brain Development."
October 2010 Vancouver, BC - International Bar Association, Presenter Mock Trial of a full
Hague Convention International Child Abduction Case.
January 2011 Law Now Article "Cross-Cultural Mediation," University of Alberta.
February/March 2011 Invited to present to the Alberta and Manitoba Judges Continuing
Legal Education Conference [National Judicial Institute] on issues involving internationally
and Domestically Abducted Children.
March 2011 Invited to Present at the International Family Law Conference in Cape Town,
South Africa, on the Canadian Perspective on Hague Convention Applications on
International Child Abductions.
March 2011 Appointed to the Practice Note "7" Committee Regarding the Use of
Independent Parenting Experts, Chaired by Madam Justice Andrea Moen.
November 2011 Invited to Present to the International Bar Association in Dubai, on the
Canadian Perspective on Sharia Law and Enforcement of Orders from Non-Hague
Convention Countries.
January 2012 Alberta Law Conference, Calgary, Alberta - Chair Person regarding the law
relating to internationally and Domestically Abducted Children
September 2012 Published Paper on the Voice of the Child in Hague Convention Child
Abduction cases for the International Bar Association Newsletter.

March 2013 6th World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights, Sydney Australia -
Presented on the Voice of the Child in the context of the Hague Convention on the Civil
Aspects of International Child Abductions.
August 2013 Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan -
Presenter on the Hague Convention and the Rights of the Child to Legal Representation.
September 2013 Challenges Facing Counsel For Children in the Context of the Hague
Convention, International Bar Association, IBA Global Insight.
October 2013 Presenter, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pluralistic Societies: International
and Local Experiences, His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili’s Council for
Canada, McDougal Centre, and Calgary.
April 2014 Canadian Bar Association Webinar, Hague Convention on International Child
Abductions and Child’s Objection to Return.
April 2014 IBA Newsletter Article “The Hague Convention and the Rights of Children:”
Bala, Blitt, and Blackburn.
May 2014 Canadian Bar Association-Comment on R.M. v. J.S.: Alberta Court of Appeal on
The Hague Convention and Evidence of Children’s Objections.
June 2015 International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Quebec City, Quebec,
Presentation on The Canadian Experience regarding the Hague Convention and Recent
Case Trends.
Max Blitt
Member of the Law Society of Alberta
Other Law Society Memberships:
Canadian Bar Association
Alberta bar Association
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (International)
Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association
Law Society of Alberta 2011 Family Law Advisory Committee
2011 Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta Practice Note "7" Committee
2012 Canadian bar Association National Children's Law Committee
International bar Association UK and Wales International Law Society Membership
American Bar Association, International Division, International Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers.
Contact Details:
Max Blitt QC
SPIER HARBEN
1400,707 - 7TH AVENUE S.W.
CALGARY, ALBERTA T2P 3H6
Phone: (403)699-1257
Fax: (403) 699-1359
Email: mblitt@spierharben.com
Website: www.childabduct.com

Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
We are a leading corporate law firm that provides innovative and effective legal
solutions to companies of various specialties and fields.
We foster a pioneering culture based on high performance, teamwork and results
orientation, aligning legal advice with the objectives of our clients.
JORGE DANIEL GRISPO born in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires on
December 10, 1965, is a nationally recognized lawyer specialized in corporate law,
advising and representing companies of various specialties and fields, with a
profuse academic and professional activity.
He is a member of the Argentine Institute of Commercial Law and publishes
periodic publications in the main legal media in the country, such as La Ley, El
Derecho, Abogados.com, Errepar, Rubinzal-Culzoni, among the most prominent.
He is a lecturer and has participated as an exhibitor in numerous academic events
of his specialty.
He began his law studies at the Universidad del Salvador School of Law, obtaining
the title of lawyer on September 28, 1993. Later, he completed a master's degree in
Business Law at the Austral University, obtaining the title of “Magister in Business
Law”, the December 18, 1995, University in which, later did a Postmaster with
specialization in Corporate Law.
In October 2002, he graduated as a “Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Legal
Studies” from Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, California. Later he
continued his studies obtaining a master’s degree in Business Administration at
the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). In 2008 he completed a specialization in
Small and Medium Business Management (DPME) at the IAE (Institute of High
Business Studies of the Austral University).
His academic career led him to be a professor of Commercial Law, Bankruptcy Law,
Commercial Societies, Strategy of the Loyal Department and Corporate Dynamics,
both in undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Buenos Aires, at
the Austral University, at the Catholic University. Argentina and in other
prestigious private universities in the Argentine Republic.
Contact Details:
Tucumán 637, 3 ° (CABA)
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
studio@estudiogrispo.com.ar

Criminal Défense Law Firm of the Year – UK
ABR Solicitors is a nationally recognised criminal defence solicitors practice
specialising in fraud, crime, and regulatory defence. Our mental health and prison
law teams are highly regarded throughout the North of England. We have offices in
Leeds, Liverpool, and London.
Rob Rode
Practice Areas:
Criminal Defence
Business Defence
POCA/Confiscation
Regulatory Solicitors
Professional Discipline
Military Law
Mental Health
Prison Law Advice and Representation
Firearms
Private Prosecution
Rob is a nationally and internationally recognised specialist criminal defence
solicitor. He is an acknowledged specialist fraud (white collar) and regulatory
defence solicitor. He is described in one of the leading guides to the profession as
“like a terrier that never stops digging”. Rob is a supervisor on the Specialist Fraud
Panel set up by the Legal Aid Agency. He is a higher court advocate.
He is described in Chambers 2019 as “a very good lawyer” and a “fearsome
advocate” and recognised as a leading individual in crime fraud and financial crime
by the most recent Legal 500 and Chambers editions, both nationally and locally.
He represents individuals and companies in the UK and abroad facing
investigation/prosecution under the Bribery Act or multijurisdictional legislation
including FCPA. He has experience of dealing with prosecution authorities across
several jurisdictions.
Rob undertakes fraud defence, regulatory defence, white collar defence involving
international/cross-jurisdictional issues, defence of tax /VAT fraud, motoring, and
general criminal matters with (again, according to a leading independent guide) “a
certain panache”.
Rob undertakes private prosecutions on behalf of individuals and companies.

Rob has acted as defence solicitor successfully in numerous cases defending
historic and present-day sexual offence allegations. He also has a particular
interest in defending allegations of serious violence and murder.
He is tactically astute and will ensure that when appropriate a pro-active defence is
pursued in all cases.
Rob trained at Irwin Mitchell and joined the firm in 1998 becoming a partner in
2002 and senior/managing partner in 2013. He was chairman of the Serious Fraud
Association and is a member of SAHCA,POCLA,CLSA the International Criminal
Bar, The American Bar Association, and a member of the criminal duty solicitor
defence scheme.
Contact Details:
81 Chancery Lane
London
WC2A 1DD
0333 009 8181
rob.rode@abrsolicitors.com

Law Office of Ramni Taneja
Constitutional Law Firm of the Year – India
Born on 4th December 1955 in New Delhi, Ramni Taneja is a citizen of India,
having been educated in Mumbai, India, and London, England. She enrolled
as an Advocate on 17th October 1980, on the Roll of the Bar Council of
Maharashtra, [Mumbai], India; subsequently transferred to the Bar Council of
Delhi, India, on 20th October 1997. On 3rd March 1997, she was admitted as
a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, [now known as the
Senior Courts of England and Wales]. In 1999, she was appointed as a Notary
by the Government of India, New Delhi, India.
Since 1997, Ramni Taneja practises in New Delhi, India, as an Advocate in the
Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi, apart from various other
tribunals and courts in Delhi and in India. From 1980 till 1982 she practised as
an Advocate with Little & Co., Advocates and Solicitors, Mumbai, India; she
headed the office of Little & Co., Advocates, in New Delhi, India, from 2002
till 2006. From 1983 till 1997, Ramni Taneja was licensed and practised as a
Legal Consultant with A.R. Hilal & Associates, Advocates and Legal
Consultants, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her law firm, Law Office of
Ramni Taneja, began in New Delhi, India in August 2006.
Ramni Taneja completed her school education in the United Kingdom [UK] at
Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster, London, England, UK, as a consequence of
which she obtained the University of London, General Certificate of
Education, Ordinary Levels and Advanced Levels, between 1972-1974. She
obtained her BA Honours [First Class Honours] Degree in English Literature
[Major] French Literature [Subsidiary] in 1977 from Elphinstone College,
University of Bombay, India. She obtained her LLB Degree [First Class] in 1980
from Government Law College, University of Bombay, India. She was
awarded the Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes Françaises Modernes in 1975 by
l’Alliance Française, Paris, France, [Mention Tres Honourable: i.e. Distinction]
and was ranked first in the examination in 1975 in India and Asia.
Ramni Taneja is the author of Foreign Direct Investment and Globalisation,
published by Eastern Book Company, 2014. She has written legal articles that
have been published in international and Indian legal journals on various
legal issues
Ramni Taneja’s principal areas of legal practice covering litigation and
transactional legal work are: all areas of commercial law, civil law, corporate
law, constitutional law and criminal law.

Other areas of legal practice covering litigation and transactional law inter
alia are:
Arbitration [international and domestic], air law, banking law, consumer
protection law, due diligence, direct and indirect taxation and international
taxation, extradition law, laws relating to asylum, family law, foreign direct
investment, including foreign exchange law, insurance law, initial public
offerings, intellectual property law, infrastructure law, employment law, laws
governing the media, mergers and acquisitions, immigration and nationality
law, maritime law, succession law, private international law, public
international law and property law.
Contact Details:
RAMNI TANEJA, Advocate and Notary
LAW OFFICE OF RAMNI TANEJA
Address:
A 34 DEFENCE COLONY
NEW DELHI 110024, INDIA
Telephones: +91 11 4155 2051; +91 11 4155 2052
Fax: +91 11 4155 2053
email id: ramni@ramnitaneja.com
http://www.ramnitaneja.com/

Cannons Law Practice
Aviation Law Firm of the Year – UK
My name is Frank Cannon, a qualified lawyer in Scotland. My principal area of expertise is
in dispute resolution and court litigation. I have also a special interest in Aviation Law,
having been a qualified pilot most of my adult life. I have been a qualified lawyer as well
as a qualified pilot for more than 50 years.
At the age of 78 years I still supervise all cases, and the clients still have direct access to me.
No answering services, no “leave messages” just individual direct access on mobile phone at
all times. Individual lawyers are deployed to their specialisms and strengths.
Our firm traces its origins right back to 1969 when I started the firm. The firm has always
been a problem solver, particularly in difficult situations. The clients I started with are all
the same age as I am and now their children instruct my daughter who runs the firm with
me. We have 6 lawyers and cover all areas of general practice.
Our main selling point is economy of cost. Our lawyers have no targets for “billable hours”
and the only motivational force in our office is to ensure that justice wins at the most
economical cost to the client.
We act typically for family businesses and individuals. We love helping people who need
justice.
As we do not have an eye for maximum profit, we are, and were, able to weather
economic downturns. A lot of the cases we do in court are taken on a “no-win-no-fee” basis
which is a “win-win” for the clients.
By being ultra-flexible, we weather all storms, and we avoid high overheads. Otherwise all
businesses have to pass their overheads on to their clients.
Living now in an over-regulated society, much effort is expended on the regulation itself
and the transparency of the regulation. The paper-trail of over-regulation is the monster in
the room. This applies, unfortunately, now to all parts of society, and it is probably here to
stay. Unfortunately too, parliamentarians think that if they regulate, the problem goes
away.

Our long-term mantra is
“OUR WORK IS LAW”.
We have used this motto for 50 years.
This year we also boast “50 YEARS OF LEGAL EXCELLENCE”
Contact Details:
CANNONS LAW PRACTICE
Aviation Lawyers
11 Somerset Place
GLASGOW G3 7JT
Tel 0044 141 204 5115
Fax 0044 141 22 62 221
Web www.cannonslaw.com

Initial Public Offering Firm of the Year – USA
Swiss Financiers, Inc., is a FinTech Group that incubates and orchestrates
IPOs and SPACs from pre-IPO financing to listing. They are dealmakers
organizing IPOs and SPACs between issuing companies, industry leaders
and executives worldwide, fast tracking successful transactions with
investment banks, institutional investors, and debt lenders. Collectively,
the team came to the same conclusion that business and investment banks’
approaches were too complex and too expensive to correctly serve the
majority of companies in need of support.
Swiss Financiers is particularly designed to support entrepreneur-driven
companies.
Their unique market position as a dealmaker is at the crossroads of
advisory, debt and investment banking, without competing with them.
Practice Area’s:
Initial Public Offering – IPO
Financing IPO – Costs
SPACs
Swiss Financiers is managed by a group of entrepreneurs and experts that
have a proven track record in finance, innovation, start-up funding,
governance, management and leadership. Its team has a vast historic
experience in financial affairs and banking. Each of the founding partners
has a distinctive background from specialized yet complimentary sectors of
the industry. Swiss Financiers has expertise in areas such as: investments,
venture capital, private equity, debt, securities and investment banking.
Collectively, the team came to the same conclusion that business and
investment banks approach were too complex and too expensive to correctly
serve the majority of companies in need of support. The team is committed
to innovative IPO financing solutions supporting companies when they need
it and not when they are successful.
IPO Cost Financing is one of the key building blocks of Swiss Financiers
Taking a company public demands a certain amount of disposable cash that
is often considered a high barrier to entry.
At Swiss Financiers we have the experience to drive and manage the
financing requirements to go public on securities markets through
transaction financing.

Swiss Financiers Partners:
Christian Frampton
Marc Deschenaux
Jeremy Oades
Dourgam Kummer
Steven Melnik
Anna Budnikova
Hayet Bouzid
Their team holds decades of experience in successfully accompanying
companies through their Private Equity needs – and then listing their
businesses on the public security markets. For its diverse client base, Swiss
Financiers orchestrates the processes of going public and improves cost
efficiency at all times. Their firm is committed to innovative Initial Public
Offering (IPO) financing solutions supporting companies when they need it
and not when they are already successful. Their team has decades of
experience in IPOs (179+ IPOs) and Marc Deschenaux recently wrote an
article on IPO Financing Investments and was nominated in the Who’s Who
Legal.
They are able to fast-track the process by which companies gain access to
funding in a two-step exercise: They start by transaction financing in order
to support the costs of an IPO and then, once configured for market
acceptance, accompany our clients to raise funds on the securities market
with an Initial Public Offering.
Marc Deschenaux is a world-renowned expert in Corporate & National
Finance, including Private Equity, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and
Corporate Secondary Offerings. He has raised Private and Public Equity for
companies and debt governments internationally. He is the Founder of the
leading academic authority on Initial Public Offerings, The IPO Institute, and
of The Experts Without Borders Federation, a non-governmental
organisation in process of recognition by the United Nations.
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They are highly specialized in Initial Public Offerings.
With a strong focus on the NASDAQ and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Undertaking an initial public offering can project your company to the next
level. Swiss Financiers will help and support you with the right insights to
make the right moves & at the right times to leverage your business to its
full potential.
With them, access the right capital to fuel the future of your business.

If you’re considering taking your company public, this important decision
will truly transform the way you are currently doing business. While a
public company faces greater public scrutiny and regulations, it also
secures access to more and deeper sources of capital.
Their dedicated team of IPO professionals will advise you during this
reflexion as you weight through the pros and cons of the additional
requirements and obligations of going public. They will provide you with an
appropriate plan and method to help ensure you’re on the path to success at
every steps of the way.
Swiss Financiers clear proprietary framework for going public services your
organization and strengthens your strategy to raise awareness and capital.
Swiss Financiers IPO services brings together an integrated set of
capabilities to help you as you prepare your company for your listing on the
public markets.
Swiss Financiers provides a wide range of services to manage clients as they
progress towards their IPO and organize themselves to become a listed
company:
Extensive knowledge and experience of capital markets requirements
Extensive connections with established financial institutions around
the world
Extensive experience in corporate governance matters.
Perform a thorough review of your company
Decide on the corporate and management structures needed
Assemble the teams: internal and external
Develop a timeline and framework for an efficient IPO
Their unique market position, as a dealmaker, is at the crossroads of
advisory, debt and investment banking.
We have been accompanying the following companies over the last year:
CHR Corporation
Intellectual Property Securitization (IPSE)
Earth & Sky Corporation
European Press Agency
The IPO Institute
Eiffel International Corporation
MobiGroup
Wild News Corporation

Their major challenge has been filtering the sheer volume of companies that
approach us and selecting the right business to work with. There is a lot of
demand to take companies to the public markets and this demand is
accelerating.
They overcame these issues but making our selection process even stricter.
Their future aspirations are for Our fund lab, Swiss Financiers Inc. will go
public on the NASDAQ in 2023.
Contact Deatails: Details:
Wall Street Headquarters
Swiss Financiers Inc.
99 30 Wall Street, Suite 8th Floor 3890
10005 New York City, New York
United States of America
Phone: Phone: +1 +1 212 212220 220 9304 9304
Email: Email: info@SwissFinanciers.com
info@SwissFinanciers.com

Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic
The law office GÜRLICH & Co was founded on 1st February 2002. All members of
the firm are experienced lawyers possessing outstanding professional expertise in
various branches of law.
Skilled lawyers, qualified office staff and a lot of experience – that’s our law firm.
We are fully capable of offering legal Services to both individuals and legal entities
in almost all fields of civil and commercial law, all over the territory of the Czech
Republic, both in Czech and English language. We also cooperate with a number of
external lawyers, all experts in their respective fields, to ensure the best possible
outcome for our clients.
In the event of cross-border transactions and litigation, this office hires its
cooperating international law offices as well as external foreign lawyers. Still, this
Law Firm remains a purely Czech legal office free of any financial or other influence
exerted by foreign and/or local nationals. This allows the firm to provide its
services in compliance with law, professionally and independently.
Our law firm focuses mainly on the following areas of law: Civil law, Corporate and
business law, Real Estate law, Intellectual property, Labor law and Litigation.
Above all we deal with, among the advisory on real estate property transactions
(e.g. sale, purchase or lease of apartments and commercial property), drafting all
documents relating to real estate financing, drafting all security related documents
(mortgages, lien over property and other assets including sets of movable assets,
lien over IP or a business or part thereof, security / collateral agreements relating
to banking accounts, shares and ownership interests, as well as numerous
fiduciary assignments of rights demanded by banks), arranging registration and all
other related steps, including advice on governing law. Moreover, we focus on
advisory to developers, on investment in real estate, lease and sublease
agreements, liens on real estate, creation of easements, building law.
Our law firm provides its services at a high professional level, quickly and with
complete independence. Two of our key values that help to drive businesses of our
clients are flexibility and personal approach that we manage to maintain through
the hard work of our young but skilled colleagues who are at all times prepared to
offer tailor-made solutions. Within the scope of legal assistance, our law firm
provides prevailingly advisory services in selecting the most suitable procedure with
a view to client’s needs, prepares various documents and arranges for the
preparation of opinions and legal analyses.

The highest level of professionalism that we try to maintain encompasses taking
into account forthcoming legal amendments, detailed continuous study of
judicature of both the national and European courts. However, while focusing on
professionalism we never forget that it goes hand in hand with a personal approach
which ensures that clients can always rely on our services and we provide our best
in the shortest possible time with a broad level of transparency and detailed
records of our performance.
Scope of Legal Services:
Business Transactions
Civil Law
Intellectual Property
Corporate Law and Business Law, Public Procurement
Labour Law
Real Estate
Litigation
Contact details:
GÜRLICH & Co
Politickych veznu 19
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
tel.: +420 222 101 591
fax: +420 222 101 590
email: info@akrg.cz
web: www.akrg.cz

Immigration Law Firm of the Year – USA
FGI was founded as Fakhoury Law Group in 1997 exclusively serving U.S.
businesses’ immigration needs. In 2006, FGI was formed as a separate entity to
offer immigration services to a global clientele. The two entities are currently in the
process of merging under the FGI namesake with global operations taking the
name of Fakhoury Global Professional Services, Inc. Starting with Mumbai, India,
FGI rapidly opened a series of branch offices in California, New York, and Florida.
We achieved ISO certificated in 2005 and were ranked as an AV Preeminent law
firm by Martindale Hubbell in 2012. As we have grown, FGI has acquired a global
staff of over 100 attorneys, paralegals and specialized staff with expertise in all
major U.S. visa classifications (H-1Bs, L-1s, EBs, O, TN, etc.) as well as those from
foreign countries due to our extensive network Alliance Partner Network. FGI has
grown to become Michigan’s largest independently-owned immigration law firm.
Fakhoury Global Immigration (FGI) specializes in U.S. and global business-based
immigration. Our client list comprises some of the world's most innovative brands
in the automotive, engineering, healthcare, and IT industries. FGI is a leading
service provider to high volume visa filers and have served clients in over 100
countries.
What makes FGI unique is our three-part service approach. First, we have a single
point-of-contact case management system so that clients always know who is in
charge of these cases. Second, we feature Six Sigma-certified streamlined and
technology-driven petition processing that maximizes efficiency, shortens time-tofiling,
and has enabled us to achieve 98-99% success rates in many visa categories.
Finally, we offer a competitive flat fee structure that enables our clients to plan and
budget their immigration-related activities effectively and confidently.
A prospective client asked if we could develop a central case management
repository into which four of their globally based immigration law consuls could
input and update case information. We modified our existing case management
system to capture seamlessly and to report each case that the external immigration
providers processed.
Currently, our firm’s managing director is Rami D. Fakhoury, who is also founder
of the firm. Carmen Fakhoury is President of FGI’s global arm, Fakhoury Global
Professional Services, Inc. The firm’s attorneys control client teams that manage
specific client accounts and serve as single-point-of-contacts for their assigned
clients. Their teams generally consist of a paralegal and a support staff member
(such as a technical writer). Our attorneys specialize in multiple visa categories.
Our firm and attorneys have received multiple awards such as our inclusion in U.S.
News and World Report’s Best Law Firms for 2016 and 2017, Corporate NTL’s
Global Immigration Law Firm of the Year, and Who’s Who Legal Corporate
Immigration for 2016 and 2017, among others. These awards testify to our

thought leadership, high ethical standards, and mastery of the domain of
immigration law.
Now more than ever, immigration has emerged as a national concern and firms like
FGI have an important role to play both for our clients and for the broader public.
With the increasingly likelihood of statutory and regulatory changes in the near
future, we think it vital to help our clients navigate this changing terrain as
smoothly and effectively as possible. To that end, we recently launched our
revamped and interactive website: www.fakhouryglobal.com. It features multiple
resources including Immigration Alerts which provide real-time updates of
immigration law changes in over 140 countries, Global Webinars which provide indepth
analysis on immigration trends, and a Global Immigration Resource Map
that links to digital process maps that provide updated procedures for securing
work permits and visas worldwide. More broadly, we believe we have an educative
role to play as thought leaders to the larger public. FGI participates in many
initiatives such as Global Detroit and the Forum for Expatriate Management that
inform the public on the positive impact that immigration has on the U.S. economy.
For more information about our services, please visit www.fakhouryglobal.com or
contact us at info@fakhouryglobal.com.
Contact Details:

Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA
Firm Profile
Scott & Scott, LLP is a boutique intellectual property and technology law firm with an emphasis on
software licensing and disputes, technology transactions, and software copyright litigation. The firm
is committed to monitoring the developing technology and emerging law in order to provide highly
focused representation to clients that range from mature small businesses to publicly traded multinational
corporations.
Robert J. Scott
Managing Partner
214.999.2902
rjscott@scottandscottllp.com
Robert J. Scott, Managing Partner, represents mid-market and large enterprise companies in
software license transactions and disputes with major software publishers such as Adobe, IBM,
Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. He has defended over 225 software audit matters initiated by software
piracy trade groups such as the BSA and SIIA. He is counsel to some of the world's largest
corporations on information technology matters including intellectual property licensing, risk
management, data privacy, and outsourcing.
He is regularly called upon by his peers and the media to share his expertise. His work has been
published in Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Westlaw Journal
Intellectual Property, The Licensing Journal, and Texas Lawyer among others.

Julie Machal-Fulks
Partner
214.999.2905
jfulks@scottandscottllp.com
Julie Machal-Fulks, Partner, leads a team of attorneys in representing and defending clients in legal
matters relating to information technology. Her practice focuses on complex litigation ranging from
privacy and network security, data breach notification and crisis management,
intellectual property disputes, service provider negligence claims, and content-based injuries such
as copyright and trademark infringement in software, the Internet, and all forms of tangible
media.
Her focused practice has made Julie a trusted resource in her field. She is often invited to submit
papers and present on topics including data breach notification, security incident response, software
licensing and defense against regulatory and consumer class actions.
Texas Lawyer, The Licensing Journal, Texas Wesleyan Law Institute, American Bar Association, and
the IT Compliance Institute are a few of the publications that have published Julie’s work.
Practice Areas
• Intellectual Property
• IT Transactions
• Software Audits
• Software Licensing & Disputes

Tax Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Spadafora De Rosa Law has more than 15 years of history and can provide a full
range of services through its professionals and/or its broad international network.
Alessandro De Rosa has more than 20 years of experience in Contracts, Civil Law,
International Deals, Real Estate, Soccer, Aviation, Fashion, Hotels, VIP Properties,
Apps, etc.
He has a 24/7 problem solving attitude for any emergency of his clients.
Spadafora De Rosa Law has more than 15 years of history and can provide a full
range of services through its professionals and/or its broad international network.
The level of experience reached and the creativity of its professionals represent a
tremendous added value for its clients.
Practice Areas:
- Real estate transactions for VIP properties
- Hotels transactions
- Aviation Global business project start up
- Football deals closed in EU
- App contracts for a new international platform
- Distribution agreements for an international consortium
“Our work and commitments remain the same since our foundation 15 years ago. We
to work hard every single day, the success is proportional to the hours dedicated to
Your structure and clients.”
Contact Details:
Sede di Roma
Via di Trasone, 52 00199
Tel. 06 858221
Fax. 06 8582250
Email: a.derosa@spadaforaderosa.com

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