SPEAKERS OF THE TRADE FAIR OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 2013

Tony Williams is the principal of Jomati Consultants LLP, a leading UK based international management consultancy specialising in the legal profession. 

Jomati’s services are designed to support law firms, barristers chambers and in-house legal departments on a range of strategic issues that include potential mergers and reorganisations.

Prior to establishing Jomati Consultants, Tony had almost 20 years’ experience at Clifford Chance as a corporate lawyer, his last role as Worldwide Managing Partner.

He left in 2000 to become Worldwide Managing Partner of Andersen Legal prior to the collapse of the Andersen organisation in 2002 in the wake of Enron. He established Jomati Consultants in October 2002.

tony.williams@jomati.com

Miguel Ángel is the founding partner of Perez + Partners Consultants. He is specialized in leadership and management of law firms. Many Spanish companies have set their strategy and execute the direction and management with the assistance of his experience and knowledge.

He is a consultant and professor of management at different institutions. He has also workd as lawyer in private practice for twelve years. He obtained his degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and PDG from IESE Business School. Nowadays he has become the Academic Director of the Master in Management of Law Firms (ISDE).  He collaborates with the University of Navarra where he is Professor of management in its Master for accessing to the Legal profession practice.

mpf@perezpartners.es

President of the Chicago Bar Association, Aurora N. Abella-Austriaco, is Of Counsel at Clark Hill PLC, where she concentrates in the areas of real estate litigation, construction litigation, mechanic's liens, defense of mortgage foreclosure, mortgage fraud, title insurance claims and other special chancery remedy cases. Before joining Clark Hill, she headed her own firm, Austriaco and Associates. She also spent five years with a small boutique firm, worked for Harold Levine Ltd. for four years, and served as Corporate Counsel and Managing Attorney for the Indiana operations for Attorney's Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. for 10 years. She graduated from De Paul University with a B.S. in Finance (1987) and a J.D. (1990).

She is a past Chair of the CBA Young Lawyers' Section, and a former Vice-President of the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR). She serves on the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation and served as the first female and minority President of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers' Association (IRELA). She was a founding board member of the Filipino American Bar Association, past board member and current member of the Asian American Bar Association and former member of the ISBA Real Estate Section Council. She also served on the Board of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), the Presence St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Governance Board, Hubbard Street Dance Board and was elected to the Board of Directors of Attorneys Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., a bar related title insurance company. She is the first female minority elected to the ATG board.

She was Chair of the 2012 Magistrate Merit Selection Panel Committee and served as Chair of the Tellers Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates, as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel and as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. She is currently serving her third year as CBA delegate to the ABA House of Delegates and a member of the ABA House of Delegates Select Committee. She also served as 2012 Diversity Director for the ABA General Practice Division.

She also serves as a Commissioner for the Park Ridge Planning and Zoning Commission as well as a Commissioner for the Cook County Human Rights Commission.

• February 2012- present ETL International und Eisenbeis Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

o Manager for International business development and
o German and Spanish Lawyer

• September 2006 – January 2012 Lawyer at Law Firm: Monereo, Meyer, Marinel-Lo –Dill and Partner, Berlin, Germany

• Main focus: German-Spanish legal issues related to real-estate business law

• 2008 – 2010 Graduate Student at the Graduate Program on German Law at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and obtained Master of Law, L.L.M.

• 2002 – 2006 Fundraiser and Member at Food Bank Fundación Banco de Alimentos in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Raised money and distributed food (approx. 6,000 To.) for nutritional programs and projects in the province of Buenos Aires.

• 2003 - 2004 Graduate Student at the post-graduate program on non-governmental organizations management at Universidad de San Andrés y Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained Masters Degree.

• 1996 – 2002 Teacher Assistant at the Universities Pázmány Peter Katolikus Egytem Jog-és Àllamtudományi Kar and Eötvos Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest, Hungary. Leader of legal-comparative seminars to the Spanish civil and constitutional law

• 1998 – 2002 Founder of the Social Responsibility Orphanage Project in Budapest, Hungary. The project supports to date orphanages in the city by raising funds, collecting clothing and distributing them reaching thousands of poor families.

• 1995 – 1996 Founder of the Social Responsibility Food and Education Project in Quito, Ecuador. The project supports low income households in the poorest municipalities around Quito by providing food supplies and educational materials to schools.

• 1991 - 1995 Lawyer at the Law offices Löber, von Schiller & Partner, in Madrid, Spain.The main focus was Commercial and Corporate Law. Services provided to foreign and particularly German-speaking enterprises in Spain, especially related to business establishments, mergers and acquisitions; extensive consultancy related to foreign mandates related to commerce in Spain

• 1989 – 1991 Lawyer at the Patent Law Firm Elzaburu S.A., Madrid, Spain. Services provided to foreign mandates related to Spanish branding laws as well as commercial legal matters

maria.arizti@etl.de

Gabriele Giambrone is the Managing Partner of Giambrone Law ILP, the Anglo-Italian law firm.

Graduated from the University of Palermo with a First Class "cum laude" degree, he continued his studies at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Upon graduation, he was offered a position in the Corporate department of the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. In 2005 he founded Giambrone Law ILP, one of the leading, full-service Italian law firms with more than 60 professionals in 6 offices worldwide.

Gabriele specialises in advising private and commercial clients on issues of cross-border litigation and represents claimants and defendants in all jurisdictions of civil and commercial courts and often appears at mediation and arbitration hearings. He also practices in all areas of corporate and commercial law, particularly real estate, financial services, media and entertainment.
He is a widely respected voice in the field of International Property Law and a regular contributor of articles and guidelines on Real Estate law within some of the most authoritative real estate publications in the United Kingdom.

Recently awarded ‘Overall Law Firm of the Year Italy 2012’ by Acquisition International Magazine.

spain@giambronelaw.com

Lawyer, Master in International Business Law (LL.M.). It represents the interests of national and multinational companies in various sectors. Its clients include financial institutions and credit, air transport companies, producers and national and international distributors, major private wealth, public law institutions and government agencies.

Partner of the Dutch firm DE LA FUENTE & OOSTERVEEN ADVOCATEN in Rotterdam.
Partner  DE LA FUENTE & MARTIN ALONSO ABOGADOS  in Malaga, Madrid and Singapore.

Member of the Spanish Agency for International Trade in the Netherlands.

fuente@fuente-oosterveen.com

Santiago G. Williams is a lawyer from one of the most prominent law firms in Argentina, "Bullo, Tassi, Estebenet, Lipera, Torassa".

The law firm has worked in Corporate Litigation in Civil and Commercial branches, its major customers being Telefónica SA and HSBC Bank.

Williams received a law degree at the Catholic University of Argentina, during a pre-master in Business Legal Advice at the university. He has also participated in a course aimed at young professionals in the UK, at the London School of Economics.

He is currently based in Madrid, Spain where he is pursuing a Masters in Business Law from the University of Alcalá de Henares.

Finally, Williams is a member of the Bar of the City of Buenos Aires and is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Lawyer member of Athens Bar Association, Greece, Rodanthi Tzortzaki finished her Law Studies in the Athens University and she studied a Environmental Law Master at the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris. She is partner of the Katsavos-Tzortzaki Law Firm in Athens. 

She is specialized in Property Law, Real Estates law. Her main clients are environmental and tourism business. She speaks currently Greek, Spanish, English and French.

Mr. Roberto Hayer is partner at REBER since 2012. He is in possession of a Master Degree International Intellectual Property and Information Society from the University of Amsterdam, Roberto Hayer is a lawyer practicing in Tarragona and Zurich.

Roberto Hayer studied law between Basel and Madrid.

Roberto Hayer is REBER partner, having held similar positions in law firms before. He has combined the practice of the legal profession with teaching activities at the Swiss Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Chambers of Commerce in Spain.

It is also profesor of international Corporate Law in the Master of International Legal Profession in ISDE,  Madrid (2010)

It is also the co-author of E-Commerce Law in Europe and the USA ", chapter on Switzerland, editors: Prof. Gerald Spindler and Fritjof Börner, Heidelberg 2002 and several articles in newspapers and magazines on Telecommunications Law and advertising

He speaks German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Catalan.

roberto.hayer@reberlaw.ch

Lawyer, founder of Audisio e Associati, a brand new Law Firm set up in Milano in association with other two colleagues.

Massimo acts as a labour and employment lawyer for national and foreign companies, but has also accrued significant skills in the commercial and contract field.

He obtained his degree in Law at the Catholic University of SacroCuore in Milano.
After qualifying as a Lawyer, he got a scholarship at King’s College in London.

Prior to establishing Audisio e Associati, Massimo has been Senior Associate for almost ten years of Tosetto, Weigmann and Associati one of the oldest and the most prominent Italian Associate Law firm and partner for about ten years of CMS Adonnino Ascoli Cavasola Scamoni.

He has also been and still is active in various Institution and Associations:
National Vice President of AIGA – AssociazioneItalianaGiovaniAvvocati
National Representative of AIJA – International Young Lawyers’ Association
Member of ABA – American Bar Association
Vice President and honorary legal Counsel for BCCI – British Chamber of Commerce for Italy
President of the International Commission of Milan Bar

massimo.audisio@studiotosetto.it