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Wendy Hulton is a partner in Dickinson Wright’s Toronto offices. Her practice focuses on a broad range of employment and human rights matters. Wendy has advised a broad range of employers, from start ups to world-renowned multinationals, on all aspects of employment law, cross-border employment and regulatory compliance in Canada. As a member of Dickinson […]

Nadine C. Abrahams is a Shareholder in the Chicago, IL office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and serves as the Chicago office’s Litigation Manager. Ms. Abrahams is an experienced employment law litigator. She has been based in Chicago her entire career and has extensive experience litigating all forms of labor and employment matters throughout the Midwest […]

Nadia graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a BA (history) in 2001 and obtained her LLB from UNB in 2004. While attending law school, Nadia won several scholarships and was a member of UNB’s 2004 Sopinka Cup Moot team as well as UNB’s 2003 Gale Cup Moot team, which finished second nationally. After […]

Athena Yvonne Eastwood, a partner in the Washington, DC office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, represents financial institutions, hedge funds, energy and commodity companies, and agricultural cooperatives in government investigations and regulatory, legislative and compliance matters involving commodities and derivatives. She has extensive experience with respect to all aspects of implementation of the Dodd-Frank […]

Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience in antitrust (cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of a dominant position), merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). She also regularly advises on other aspects of EU law, such as free movement of goods and services, and implements learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law.

A partner and member of IMK since 1997. Catherine McKenzie is a talented jurist who manages her litigation files with remarkable effectiveness.She has enviable experience in several large-scale litigation files.

Among other things, she has made her mark in several injunction proceedings, class action proceedings, as well as in the areas of employment and telecommunications law.

She has represented clients before all levels of Quebec courts, and has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Author of the thesis named “Priority as a Protection of Mining Concessions in Ecuador” and, I was redeem as assistant professorship on Civil Law; In the year 2005, I obtained my Master Degree in Business Law at the Francisco de Vitoria University of Madrid, Spain; Also I have attended to several courses and seminars of Community Law and Intellectual Property, The Judicial United States System, Law and Economy, Business in the International Marquet, Arbitration, Taxation Reform in Ecuador; Job Experience: (i) From October, 1997, to July, 1998 at the Probono Legal Office of the Catholic University. (ii) From October 1998 to February, 2002, at Serrano Puig Abogados Law Firm; (iii) From February 2002 to July 2002, at the Ecuadorian Intellectual Property Institute; and, (iv) Form August, 2002 to the present, at Tobar & Bustamante. Secretary of the Arbitration Tribunals of the Chamber of Commerce of Quito from 2002-2012.

Recognized as a leading lawyer for bank lending and finance in Legal 500 & IFLR, Ms. Hanrahan has handled major transactions for financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, UBS AG, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and various hedge funds.

SumMaya is a lawyer at the Tunisian and Paris bar. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Sorbonne University (Paris I) on “the failure of international financial conglomerates” (published in 2002).

Maya is specialised in banking and financial law. She has an extensive experience in structured finance. She has practiced law during several years at Baker & McKenzie (Rome/Paris), Freshfields (Paris) and Jonesday (Paris), then as senior legal counsel at the investment bank of BNP Paribas. Back to Tunis, she was partner in the law firm of Ferchiou & Associés Tramadol before founding JURISMED.

She published several articles on cross-border insolvencies, islamic finance and international bank guarantees. She teaches international banking law at Paris I University, Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the University of the Holy Spirit in Kaslik (Lebanon), at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (Lille/Paris) and at the Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité des Entreprises (Tunis). She is fluent in Arabic, French, English and Italian.mary paragraph or bullet points

Transactional Attorney, with extensive corporate, M&A, business contracts and antitrust experience in Brazil and abroad.Navigated through major business transactions toward achieving clients’ best interests, coordinating a motivated work team.

Multi-cultural background, fluent in Portuguese and English with advanced knowledge of French and Spanish. Reasonable reading and communicating skills in Italian.

Education at top Universities in Brazil and abroad. Practice experience at top tier law firms assisting domestic and multinational companies.
Loyal, reliable and gifted in creating clear lines of communication and in simplifying complicated information.