EXPERTISE:

Mr. Marcuss is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Bryan Cave LLP, where he heads the firm's International Trade practice. From 1972 to 1976, he was counsel to the U.S. Senate's International Finance Subcommittee. From 1976 to 1980, he was the U.S. Commerce Department's Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary and in that capacity responsible for all of the Commerce Department's international trade regulatory programs. He is a 1968 graduate of the Harvard Law School, a 1965 graduate of Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a 1963 summa cum laude graduate of Trinity College in Connecticut. He is a member of the D.C., New York, and Connecticut bars.


Christopher J. Martin - Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Mr. Martin practices employment law in the Palo Alto, California, office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He has represented corporate clients in traditional labor matters, including those arising under the National Labor Relations Act, and in matters involving employment law, such as discrimination, wage/hour matters, wrongful discharge, and trade secrets actions. He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, such as maritime, transportation, aerospace and defense, life sciences and medical devices, finance and banking, and computer hardware and software.


Luca Masotti - Partner, Studio Masotti Avvocati Associati

A founding partner of Studio Masotti Avvocati Associati, Mr. Masotti deals with company and commercial law, international litigation and new technologies. He has particular expertise in assisting manufacturers and distributors of medical and surgical devices. Mr. Masotti has transferred years of experience with a major multi-national company in Paris to assist his clients in Italy with the design and implementation of preventive conduct and compliance programs. He holds the title of Solicitor (non practicing) in England and Wales and is a member of the Union Internationale des Avocats.


Tom McVey—Partner, Williams Mullen

A partner in Williams Mullen's Washington D.C. office, Mr. McVey was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, 23rd plenary session. Mr. McVey has extensive experience in a wide variety of international and domestic business activities, including export control, import, distribution, licensing, joint venture, and trade finance issues.


Joe Murphy—Principal, CSLG

Joe Murphy is widely regarded as the dean of corporate ethics and compliance. An author, speaker, and compliance visionary for the past 30 years, Mr. Murphy currently serves on the Board of the SCCE, and is the antitrust counsel for the Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum. He previously served as senior attorney for Bell Atlantic's worldwide Corporate Compliance program and is quoted regularly as a leading expert on a wide variety of corporate compliance and business ethics issues.


Joan T. Pinaire—Special Counsel, McCarter & English, LLP

A former corporate counsel, Trademarks and Copyrights for Avaya Inc. and Lucent Technologies, Inc., Ms. Pinaire is a member of her firm's Intellectual Property/Information Technology practice group. Her practice focuses on trademark and copyright counseling, clearance and registration trademark opposition proceedings in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office trademark and technology licensing and Internet-related matters.


Michael Pullen—Partner, EU Regulation and E-Commerce Group, London/Brussels

Mike Pullen, a partner at DLA in Brussels, is an expert on EU regulation of E-Commerce. He has contacts with the EU institution and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He writes and speaks on competition law, data protection law and EU regulatory issues. His views have been sought by institutions including the DTI, the Minister for E-Commerce, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the U.S. Department of Commerce.


Thilo Raepple—Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Frankfurt Office

Thilo Raepple focuses his practice on the medical industry sector and is the head of Baker & McKenzie's European Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Practice Group. He has experience with pharmaceutical law, medical devices' law, regulatory law as well as pharmaceutical advertising, unfair competition and intellectual property law. He regularly speaks on compliance matters and is author of various articles and books in this field of law. He is co-editor of the legal periodicals "Pharmarecht" and "Medizinprodukte Recht".


Blake Redding—Founder Périnne, Ribierre & Redding

Blake Redding is a founder of the Parisian law firm – Périnne, Ribierre & Redding, specialized in risk and insurance. He has previously been a partner in the French practice of EY Law, where, in addition to counselling his corporate clients, he was the worldwide quality and risk management director for the EY Law network of 2000 lawyers in 35 countries. Prior to EY Law, he practiced in-house for more than 20 years. He was general counsel of the Michelin group and deputy general counsel of Schlumberger. An American, he has lived and practiced abroad, primarily in France, for 20 years. He is admitted to several U.S. bars and the Paris Bar.


Kenneth Ross—Of Counsel, Bowman and Brooke LLP

Kenneth Ross is an expert in product safety and liability prevention and, according to the National Law Journal, is a "preventive law pioneer." He has practiced in this area for 27 years, 13 of them as an in-house lawyer. He created the first legal course on product liability prevention for the Practising Law Institute in 1977 and has lectured to engineers and business people since 1976. He advises U.S. and foreign manufacturers, product sellers, insurance brokers and insurance companies on ways to minimize the risk of liability.


Peter O. Safir—Partner, Covington & Burling

Mr. Safir is a partner in the Washington D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He is recognized in the pharmaceutical industry as one of the leading food and drug regulatory lawyers. Recently, he has worked with the research-based pharmaceutical industry on marketing practices, life cycle management, and issues involving drug quality and manufacturing. He has conducted internal investigations involving fraud and abuse, advertising practices, and GMP compliance issues in the drug and medical device fields.


Grail Walsh Sipes—Covington & Burling

Grail Walsh Sipes is an associate practicing food and drug law with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She advises clients on a range of regulatory and compliance issues surrounding the development and marketing of drugs, biologics, and medical devices. Her practice includes issues relating to data privacy and information technology in the health care arena.


Donald K. Stern—Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Stern was the chief law enforcement official in Massachusetts, directing an office of almost 100 attorneys. In this capacity, he had primary responsibility for the TAP Pharmaceutical case. Mr. Stern also chaired the White Collar Crime subcommittee to the attorney general's advisory committee and served as a member of the Health Care Fraud subcommittee and the White Collar Crime Council. Currently, Mr. Stern is a partner with Bingham McCutchen LLP.


Brian Wenning—Ethics and Compliance Director, TXU

Mr. Wenning is ethics & compliance director for TXU in Dallas, Texas. In this role, he helps to ensure that TXU performs its activities consistent with the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. He has 20 years of service in the utility industry and immediately prior to being named to this position, he was on a special assignment dealing with industry deregulation and public policy issues.


Luke Wilde—Founder, TwentyFifty Limited

Luke Wilde is a founding director of human rights and sustainability business consultancy, TwentyFifty Limited. Based in the UK, Mr Wilde works with international companies in the pharmaceutical, beverage, utilities, extractives and media sectors on the understanding and management of their human rights impact. He is an adviser to the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights and a director of the annual international Business and Human Rights Seminar held in December in London. He has previously worked for a leading multi-national management consultancy and the United Nations.


Willem de Nijs Bik

Willem de Nijs Bik joined Simmons & Simmons in 1989, became a partner in 1997 and was head of the Dutch corporate department between 1998 - 2002. Mr de Nijs Bik was a member of the representative body of delegates of The Netherlands Bar Association between 1992 - 2003. He has advised on a broad range of corporate work both for a number of listed and non-listed companies. He also frequently advises regional and municipal authorities in relation to corporate/M&A and corporate governance issues. Mr de Nijs Bik has written several acclaimed publications on corporate law, and frequently lectures on the subject. Legal 500 has recognised Willem de Nijs Bik as 'highly regarded' and among the leading Dutch Corporate lawyers.


Anne Maréchal

Anne Maréchal is a Partner of Cariddi Mee Rue correspondent of DLA Piper US LLP .She specialises in Corporate, Capital Markets and public law.

After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Anne began her career in the Ministry of Finance where she was Commissioner in charge of International Relations within the General Competition Policy Department of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, as well as French representative to the EEC, the UN and the OECD. Anne then worked as Director of the Financial Markets Supervision Department at the French Stock Exchange Commission.

Anne has advised governments, major international banks, insurance companies and multi-national companies on a wide range of public law, regulatory, stock exchange and securities issues, including public, privatisations, takeovers and mergers and acquisitions.