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Debbie completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours majoring in chemistry from the University of Melbourne before commencing her training as a patent attorney in 1988. She registered as a patent attorney in 1993 and became a principal of Griffith Hack in 2003.Debbie has primarily practised as a patent attorney in the fields of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. She has extensive experience in the drafting and prosecution of both local and overseas patent applications.

Sandra Appel has over three decades of experience advising on corporate and commercial matters including corporate governance and shareholder relations, secured financings, restructuring of businesses and distribution and franchising arrangements in a wide variety of industries including electronics, hospitality, automotive, building materials, photographic supplies and machine tools and tooling. Sandra has focussed on providing general counsel services to many significant Canadian companies and Canadian subsidiaries of international companies based principally in the United States and Japan.

Emilie Meridjen-Mamane regularly advises private companies on day-to-day issues such as reorganization, collective bargaining, individual and collective labor litigation and human resources auditing, litigation.

She has developed an expertise in labour law aspects of restructuring and external growth projects.

Sandrine de Sousa specializes M&A, Private Equity and securities law.She is recognized in particular for her expertise in mergers and acquisitions (domestic and cross-border transactions), joint ventures, partnerships and reorganizations, private equity operations, IPOs, mixed securities issuances, involving listed and non-listed companies

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

Louise Groom specialises in Cayman Islands law. She has a broad range of onshore and offshore experience and regularly advises local and international banking and commercial clients on Cayman Islands legal aspects of finance transactions (secured lending, asset finance, project finance, acquisition finance and structured finance) and corporate transactions (corporate restructurings and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, strategic joint ventures, takeovers and stock exchange listings). Prior to joining Harneys in 2011, Louise worked as an associate with Walkers in its Cayman office for 3 years.

Indira frequently advises on multi-million dollar transactions. Recent experience includes advising Delancey, the specialist real estate investment and advisory company, on its US$892 million acquisition of the London Olympic Village as a joint venture with Qatari Diar and advising the borrower in a real estate financing involving VTB France (S.A.) and Lesnaya Plaza in Moscow.

Nadia Tarolli Schmidt heads up the Basel office of VISCHER’s tax team. She advises companies and private individuals on all matters pertaining to Swiss tax law (including criminal tax law) – both in the national and international environment. She has over ten years’ experience in restructurings, relocations and succession planning.

Nancy Erotocritou joined the Cyprus office in 2007 and became a partner in 2011. She is a member of the Banking and Finance Department and advises major international banking institutions in project and asset finance transactions and security structures. Nancy also advises multinational companies in corporate law matters and has particular expertise in cross border mergers.

Arleen Nand is a structured finance partner at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. She represents commercial, cooperative and investment banks, hedge funds and corporations in complex and innovative structured finance transactions.