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Superior Lawyer 2014 Winners Index Anderson Kill Insurance Law Firm of the Year – USA Arnold Rechtsanwälte GmbH Dispute Resolution Law Firm Of The Year - Austria AZB & Partners Media Law Firm of the Year – India Basilio Advogados Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year – Brazil BUSSE & MIESSEN Rechtsanwälte Franchise Law Firm of the Year – Germany Campbells Corporate & Commercial Law Firm of the Year – Cayman Islands De Gaulle Fleurance & Associes Law Firm of the Year – France Deep & Far Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan Gagrats Advocates & Solicitors Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – India Goodrich, Riquelme y Asociados IP Law Firm of the Year – Mexico Gurlich & Co. advokátní kancelář Real Estate Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic

Konecna & Zacha Real Estate, Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic

Konecna & Zacha Real Estate, Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic Kotiranta & Co White Collar Crime Law Firm of the Year - Finland Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo Indonesian Corporate Law Firm of the Year Masuda & Partners Law Office Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Tokyo Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Rechtsanwälte Real Estate Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland Odvetniška družba Rojs, Peljhan, Prelesnik & partnerji o.p., d.o.o Full Service Lawyer of the Year PCB Litigation LLP Asset Recovery Law Firm Of The Year - UK Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP IP Law Firm of the Year – Germany Sadis & Goldberg Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – USA Saxinger, Chalupsky & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH Banking & Investment & Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Austria Stelios Americanos & Co LLC Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – Cyprus Tavernier Tschanz Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland Transfer Pricing Romanian Transfer Pricing Advisory Firm of the Year Yav & Associates Mining Law Firm of the Year – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Editors Choice Aleksey Pukha & Partners Foreign Investment Law Firm of the Year – Ukraine ANK Law Firm Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year – Ukraine Cabinet Ratheaux Corporate Law Firm of the Year – France Intercorp Group International Tax Law Firm of the Year – Brazil Raposo Bernardo Full Service Law Firm of the Year – Portugal Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera Bankruptcy Law Firm of the Year – Mexico Rogerson Law Asset Protection Law Firm of the Year – Canada

Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year - Brazil Basilio Advogados is structured in areas. Each area has its specific expertise. We work with litigation, representing defendants and authors in all types of lawsuits related to all areas, as Commercial, civil, tax, real estate, administrative and regulatory, amongst others. Please find below a brief explanation about each areas that we have expertise: (i) Administrative and Regulatory – We work as consultants in legal diligences, as well as represent clients in administrative and judicial procedures related to companies that provides public services; (ii) Arbitration – We have experience in national and international arbitration procedures related to civil and commercial matters, as well as, litigations arising from all types of agreements; (iii) Real Estate – We act advising our clients in Real Estate transactions as buy/sell, rent, use and occupation by third parties, Real Estate developments, Real Estate funds constitution, among others; (iv) Succession – We act as consultants on judicial and extrajudicial “inventories” for succession and real estate planning, as well as in family companies preservation; (v) Corporate Recovery – We assist our clients in judicial and extrajudicial corporate recovery procedures under the Law 11.101/2005; (vi) Environmental – We have experience in assisting our clients on the procedure for the obtainment of all legal licenses and permits necessary for the implementation of any project regarding any nature; (vii) Constitutional – Elaboration of Legal Opinions regarding law projects and amendments to the constitution proposals, elaboration of direct action of unconstitutionality (ADIN) drafts, declaratory actions of constitutionality drafts (ADECON), as well as petitions for breach of a fundamental precept (ADPF); and (viii) Corporate – We act as assistants in companies constitution, joint ventures transactions among others. Draft elaboration of Articles of Association, By-Laws, Shareholder Agreements, drafts and any other corporate documentation including documentation regarding mergers, acquisitions and company liquidation. Ana Teresa Basilio, specialist in civil and commercial litigation, arbitration and electoral law. Bachelor in Brazilian Law. She graduated from Universidade Candido Mendes - UCAM on the year of 1989. Since then she had a brilliant career, working amongst the best layers and law firms that our country has to offer. She worked at Sergio Bermudes Law Firm, which is one of the most well-known Law Firm in Brazil, for eleven years, figuring as Partner. After that she moved on and worked in Trench, Rossi and Watanabe (Baker & Mackenzie) Law Firm, acting as the head of the civil and commercial litigation sector in Brazil from 2002 to 2005. She has a post-graduation degree in American Law from the Wisconsin University. She was President from the Brazilian Bar Association Arbitrage Chamber from 2004 to 2006

and she was also the President from the Bar Association Lawyers Partnership Commission from 2003 to 2006. She worked as Partner from Andrade & Fichtner Law Firm, from 2006 to 2008 acquiring even more experience in civil and commercial litigation, as well as in arbitration. In January 2009 she has founded, with other great lawyers as João Basilio, her brother, Basilio, Di Marino e Faria Advogados Law Firm. We work with several huge companies national and international. Among them we can use as example, one of the most significant telecommunications group in our country which is “Grupo Oi”. The companies that compose this group are Oi, Telemar Norte Leste, TNL PSS S.A., Brasil Telecom Multimidia and others. This group holds a big stake of the telecommunications market in Brazil. We represent them in litigations all over Brazil as authors or defendants. Despite the tough economic downturn, our firm did not face any changes or complexities. Our growth expectation remained the same and we did reach our goal as expected. As mentioned above, the management of these areas is held by Ms. Basilio, since she is one of the best lawyers in our country and also she has an extraordinary influence in regards of these abovementioned areas. We see a bright future for Brazil in all aspects. The fact that we (Brazil) will be hosting the World Cup of Soccer (2014) and the Olympic Games (2016) is very important for our worldwide image. We shall use these two events as windows for foreign investors and/or tourists. This impact directly in our firm business. More investors represent more transactions and those transactions have to be assisted by Brazilian lawyers. We expect more use of arbitration in regards of resolution of disputes, which is a very good expectation for us, since we have an enormous expertise and influence on the area. Currently we are expanding our firm and we have opened a new office at Barra da Tijuca. Rio de Janeiro is suffering a big change in regards of infrastructure. Nowadays is possible to find notaries and public agencies at Barra da Tijuca which is a neighborhood located at west side of Rio de Janeiro, and it was one, among others, motivation for us to expand to that city area.

Contact Details Ana Tereza Basilio abasilio@basilioadvogados.com.br Av. President Wilson, 210 – 12th and 13th floors Centro – Rio de Janeiro – RJ Postal Code: 20030-021 Telephone: 55 21 2277-4200 Fax: 55 21 2210-6316

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IP Law Firm Of The Year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mexico With more than 75 years of experience, Goodrich has a long tradition of standing alongside its clients when helping them make their business objectives a reality. By means of a cross practice among service areas and industry teams, our carefully trained lawyers achieve an innovative approach towards the rendering of contemporary legal services tailored to the demanding business community worldwide. We pride ourselves in knowing what drives key industry sectors and are able to provide on a daily basis, the best creative and cost-effective business solutions beforehand. Our clients are medium-size, as well as leading global companies of numerous nationalities and economic sectors. We ensure that our clients are competently represented wherever their businesses take them. This is why, in addition to our network of correspondents in Mexico and our own office in Paris (since 1971), Goodrich actively participates as founder firm of the Bomchil Group, an association of independent law firms with offices in practically every Latin American country. Today, Goodrich has a professional and administrative staff of over 250. Professional ethics and effective team work, leading to solid solutions and constant innovation are embedded throughout our firm. In addition to sponsoring training programs for our lawyers, both, nationally and internationally, we encourage the participation of our partners as part time lecturers and research fellows in high ranking law schools in Mexico. Goodrich actively participates in trade associations, local and international bars. Some of our members are frequently invited to speak at both, domestic and foreign conferences, as well as to hold leadership positions in sections of bar associations and industry organizations. Last but not least, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, pro bono work and gender equality are also essential elements of our existence. In our firm we are constantly striving to renew ourselves and in being prepared to face the everchanging legal challenges that lie ahead. We are a firm of young lawyers with the highest professional and ethical standards. Practice Areas: Antitrust Banking & Finance Bankruptcy Corporate & M&A Environment Law & Climate Change

Immigration Intellectual Property Labor Law & Social Security Litigation & ADR Mining & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Power Generation & Clean Energies Real Estate & Tourism Tax Law & International Trade TMT Transportation The vast majority of our intellectual property work is for non-Mexican companies conducting business in Mexico. Our staff of attorneys, engineers and computer specialists helps adapt foreign patent specifications and claims to Mexican law, secure patent inventions and trademark registration and maintain them by handling the necessary renewals. Our computer system, which is linked to the Mexican Patent and Trademark Department, permits us to provide our clients with a timely notice of their intellectual property matters. We also perform trademark searches and prepare and register license agreements. Due to recent changes in technology, we are increasingly being called on for assistance in licensing and litigation relating to computer software as well as for complex licensing negotiations and settlements involving patents, trademarks and copyrights. Our lawyers handle litigation for clients in all areas such as licensing, patent and trademark infringement, including counterfeiting, unfair competition cases, pirating and unlawful duplication of computer software. We are active players in Entertainment and Sport deals. In keeping with our pioneering spirit and desire to be in the vanguard of international legal developments, Goodrich opened a European office in 1971 in Paris. Today the Paris office is attended by qualified Mexican attorneys who speak French. They handle the needs of our European clients with interests in Latin America. The lawyers travel widely throughout Europe, maintaining close contacts with leading European law firms, companies and business organizations and participating in international conferences and forums on matters affecting Latin America. Modern communications allow us to support our Paris office with the full resources of the Mexico City office. Goodrich recognized long ago that our clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs required us to extend our presence beyond Mexico City. Today, we have collaborating attorneys throughout Mexico. Our office in Paris and participation in the Bomchil Group associated with offices in every Latin American country enable us to ensure that our clients are competently represented wherever their businesses take them. As our clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs continue to change, Goodrich, Riquelme will grow to satisfy them.

Contact Details: Paseo De La Reforma 265 06500 Mexion D.F. mailcentral@goodrichriquelme.com Telephone: (52 55) 55 33 00 40 Fax: (52 55) 55 25 12 27

Law Firm of the Year – France As one of the leaders on the Paris market, we are an entrepreneurial independent law firm benefiting from recognised experience in all fields of business law and from international practice. We endeavour to remain in control of our strategy and development. This is why we have always resisted merging with other law firms or networks, whilst still sustaining our international strategy and continually persevering with the view to establishing our firm on the French and European law markets. We also ensure our financial independence which is the best guarantee of our freedom: our growth is financed by the efficient management of resources and fixed costs, without recourse to debt. The entirety of our share capital is held by our firm partners. Finally, we are not dependant on any client: none represents a substantial portion of our revenue. Our strategy is to build a leading integrated full service law firm: 

“Full service”, because we can address all the needs of our clients;

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“Integrated”, because our expertise and practice areas are transversal, pooled and consolidated to provide our clients a service with added value.

We have adapted an organisational structure driven towards this strategy: 

An original organisational structure divided in two divisions (Corporate Structure and Corporate Operations) which address the main two principal needs of businesses: capital structures and business operations.

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Pooled skills and rapidly deployable.

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Project-based team work: for each new case we use talent and skill synergies to assemble a tailored team of experts to resolve all issues of the legal matters in question.

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We are available to discuss this with you in order to assemble the best team for your project and your budget.

We continue to invest in new talent to complement and reinforce our existing expertise, to widen and develop the range of activities and skills we offer and improve the services we provide our clients. Our organisation is divided into two divisions (Corporate Structure and Corporate Operations), rather than in departments, which creates a cross practice and integrated approach to legal cases. This organisation is combined with dynamic resource management, making use of practice area synergies.

Corporate Structure Division: Responding to the activities of the deal with business assets and human capital, their governance and funding. Corporate Operations Division: Responding to the industrial and commercial activities, and more generally, the day-to-day running of businesses and public entities. Practice Areas: Insurance Risk Capital Corporate Litigation & Arbitration White Collar Crime Labour & Employment Distressed Companies Taxation Finance Real Estate M&A Corporate Financial Market Regulation Patents Commercial – Distribution Competition European Law & Litigation Health – Biotechnologies Public Law – Town Planning Energy Trademarks – Design Media – Copyrights New Technologies – E-Commerce Contact Details: France 9 rue Boissy d’Anglas – 75008 Paris T. +33 1 56 64 00 00 F. +33 1 56 64 00 01 contact@dgfla.com Belgium 222 avenue Louise – 1050 Bruxelles T: +32 (0)2 644 01 64 F: +32 (0)2 644 31 16 contact@dgfla.com

Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year Taiwan Deep & Far attorneys-at-law was founded in 1992 and is dealing with all phases of laws with a focus on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counselling, litigation and/or transaction thereof. Area of Practice: Intellectual Property, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret. The patent attorneys and patent engineers in Deep & Far normally hold outstanding and advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in this country. Our prominent staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs in this country. As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques, but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations has ever used services of this firm. Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu had ever played the most important role in booming the economy of this country. About one half of them has experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 50% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. Experiences: Mr. Yu-Li Tsai, a patent attorney graduated from Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTUEE), which is the best engineering school in Taiwan. Because of interest in communication system, he then attended in the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering (GICE) of NTU. During his research life in GICE, he also started to get involved in knowledge and skills of patent-related matters for taking and receiving the qualification of patent attorney. Mr. Tsai also attended to receive an IP master from Law School of University of New Hampshire, also known as Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, had an internship with InterDigital, Inc., and passed the U.S. Patent Bar Examination. Currently, Mr. Tsai is working for Deep & Far Attorneys-at-Law as a patent attorney.

It is our philosophy to provide competent legal services that other firm cannot comparably provide. The necessitated ensuing problem is how we can so provide? Deep & Far so achieve by selecting, edifying and nurturing peoples who have the following personalities: learned in expertise, morally earnest and sincerely behaved in mind and strictly disciplined between give and take. It is well-believed that such properties are key factors for peoples to properly and competently behave themselves. Because the clients become more understood in the knowledge of IP and more budget-sensitive, they usually want to select an agent who can more efficiently and effectively deal with their IP matters. They often invite bids, set out tenders and call for interview before they decide to entrust a service provider. Taking patent for example, they gather information of costs for patent prosecution, previous works, and firm introduction materials in a preliminary choice stage, and hold an interview to obtain further details of the firm which has passed the preliminary choice stage. We represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, MPS, Schott Glas, Toyo Ink, Motorola, Cypress, Google, Armani. We always keep updating the newest state of this firm, recruiting elite patent engineers and strictly training them the essential skills, improving the efficiency and quality of service, and developing new strategies that can assist the clients effectively protecting their intellectual property rights. This firm believes that if the efficiency, quality, and enthusiasm of the services can be consistently monitored and maintained, overcoming complexities, challenges or changes is just a result rather than an issue. Our aspiration and directions would be developing more potential clients either in domestic or foreign countries, and expanding the size of this firm to assist more clients in pursuing most satisfactory IP protection. Although the domestic IP market, especially in the patent field in 2013 shrank a little, we expect this situation may finally change because there is a phenomenon that the gross economy is starting to recover in 2014.

Contact details Deep & Far Yu-Li. Tsai Tel: 886-2-25856688#900 Fax: 886-2-25989900//886-2-25978989 Add: 13th Fl., 27 Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan Web: www.deepnfar.com.tw Email: lawtsai@deepnfar.com.tw

DEEP & FAR Attorneys-at-Law 13th F1., No. 27, Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd. Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: +886-2-2585-6688 Fax: +886-2-25989900/25978989 email@deepnfar.com.tw Deep & Far was founded in 1992 and is one of the largest law firms in this country. The firm is presently focused on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counseling, litigation and/ or transaction thereof. Since this firm edges itself into the IPRs field, the firm quickly comes to fame. As an illustration, this firm often is one of the largest sources from which foreign filing orders originate. The fascinating rise of this firm begins from the founder of Deep & Far attorneysat-law, C. F. Tsai, who is the one first patent practitioner in this country who both has technological and law backgrounds and is qualified as a local attorney-at-law. The patent attorneys and patent engineers in this firm normally hold outstanding and advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in this country and/or the university in the US. Our prominent staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs. As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques, but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations are/were clients of this firm. Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu play an important role in booming the economy of this country. About one half of which have experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 60% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. We have experienced in seeking IPR-protections for our clients in more than 100 territories all over the world. We have thousands of IPR-cases respectively prosecuted before official Patent Offices of major industrialized countries. This firm not only is the most competent in IPR-related matters in this country but also is very familiar with IPR-practices in major industrialized countries. As a matter of fact, this firm oftentimes tries and makes precedents of new claim-drafting styles. While we might have become wonderfully famed locally with remarkable appreciation and respects, we would like to extend our services for internationalized or quality service-requiring foreign conglomerated giants, corporations or individuals. We strongly believe that we will win more

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Foreign Investment Law Firm of the Year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ukraine Aleksey Pukha & Partners is a full - service law firm headquarted in Kiev consisted of lawyers, attorneys, accountants and auditors. The company provides legal services in Kiev, other Ukrainian towns and abroad. Our experts may decide legal matters in any area. Aleksey Pukha & Partners employs the highly qualified professionals with experience in legal matters, deep knowledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, strong business and social position. We take part in public legal organizations, professional associations, stay in touch with the state and local authorities. The firm provides legal support for business on adequate price that is one of our advantages. They offer extensive legal assistance and solutions regardless of its complexity, introduce new practical approaches in order to be more experienced, more influential, more quickly. Their clients are residents of Ukraine and non-residents. Among the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clients there are representatives of the international and local business in agricultural, transport, construction sector, insurance, pharmaceutical and another areas. Our partners and clients testify our reputation and high qualification. Firm propose all possible variants for communication including on-line help services, legal consultation in written or electronic form and another services. You may apply for legal advice or ask the price of services in chat window. Areas of Practice: Corporate Law, Corporate Relations & Management Licensing, Permits & Certification Corporate Services Representation and Protection of Interests Tax Migration Relations Property, Building & Land Law Contracts & Documents Business Solutions Legal Support for Marriage and Divorce Contact Details 416, 21 Patrisa Lymumby St., 4th Floor, 01042, Kyiv, Ukraine +38 093 540 90 07 Office@puhiapartnery.com.ua inform@puhiapartnery.com.ua

FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR PORTUGAL Raposo Bernardo is full service international law firm born 20 years ago, with offices in 9 countries, two continents (Portugal, Spain, Poland, Romania, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe). Our 70 lawyers are specialized in the structural economic sectors such as Banking and Financial Markets, Energy and Infrastructure, Construction and Real Estate, Health and Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Tourism or Transports. The firm has been consistently recommended by Legal500 EMEA, Chambers and Partners and IFLR1000 in all the relevant practice areas covered for the jurisdictions where it acts. Furthermore, Raposo Bernardo has been recognized by its performance by Finance Monthly, Corporate INTL, ACQ, and many other specialized legal publications. The firm stands for delivering top quality in every operation performed, wherever its jurisdiction, thus enhancing the sharing of relevant knowledge and local experience and transforming it into something useful by all our lawyers in their daily work. We believe this award is further evidence our firm makes a valuable long-term difference in our clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; businesses. Areas of expertise: Corporate and M&A Banking and Finance Capital Markets Energy and Natural Resources EU and Competition Employment Tax Dispute Resolution Arbitration Public Law Real Estate Intellectual Property Raposo Bernardo managing partners are strong technically, academically best reputable lecturers, and experimented lawyers in complex and innovative international operations. The managing skills are clearly identified by the hierarchy of managing global partners and country managers, who are able to produce a sustainable decision making process to respond to the needs of the international network, in real time. Nelson Raposo Bernardo is the global managing partner of Raposo Bernardo. His reference practice areas are banking and finance, capital markets, corporate law, M&A, project finance and private equity.

He advises national and multinational leading players in operations concerning debt, equity, structured finance and securitisation, M&A, project finance, private equity, restructuring and regulation. He is also strongly experienced and reputed in legislating, being co-author of the present Portuguese Securities Code and has led several legislative reform committees, in several countries, in banking, financial, real estate and construction areas. He has published books and articles on corporate law, banking and contract law, and participated as a speaker in seminars and conferences in Portugal and abroad. He was a member of a commission of the Conselho Superior da Magistratura (Supreme Judicial Council), for the approval of ad-hoc judges (2000) and consultant for Capital Markets of the Portuguese Auditors Association (1998-2006). He holds a degree in Law from the Law School of the University of Lisbon, a Masters in Juridical Sciences (Corporate Law) from the same School, where is he is also presently working on his doctorate in Corporate Law. Assistant Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at Law School of the University of Lisbon and in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Start-Up and Management courses at INDEG/ISCTE (Audax) (2005-present), one of the best reputed business schools in Portugal. He is chairman of boards of general meetings of several companies and associations. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. Joana Andrade Correia co-heads Raposo Bernardo’s corporate and M&A department. For over ten years, she has dedicated her work to this area, building a solid experience and notable reputation. Throughout her career, she was involved in numerous relevant domestic and international operations, concerning corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions for reference players of different sectors, like pharmaceutical, banking and finance, tourism and energy, among others. Outside the Portuguese jurisdiction, Joana has also participated in elaborating several legislative packages, by invitation of different governments and of the World Bank. She holds a degree in Law from the University of the Lisbon Law School and is a post-graduate in Business and Corporate Law (by the Catholic University of Lisbon), in Legistics (by the University of Lisbon Law School) and in Tourism Law (by the Estoril Tourism School). She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Contact details Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, Ed. Aviz, nº 35, 18º, 1050-118 Lisboa – Portugal Tel: (00351) 21 312 1330 Fax: (00351) 21 356 2908 • E-mail: lisboa@raposobernardo.com • www.raposobernardo.com

Bankruptcy Law Firm of the Year – Mexico Alonso Rivera Gaxiola is a Mexican attorney with more than 20 years of experience. He is a specialist in civil, commercial, corporate and administrative litigation, in bankruptcy proceedings, in national and international financial restructuring, as well as in national and international commercial arbitration. He is founder and directing partner of Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera, S.C. (indistinctly “RGCyB”) Throughout his career, Alonso has faced the most complex cases with tremendous challenges and superb success. Given the complexity and sophistication of international commerce, relations and transactions, financial restructures regularly involve more than one judicial system and culture. This implies that Alonso must exercise great understanding and abilities, as well as a great deal of creativity. When dealing with shareholder disputes, Alonso’s greatest challenge is to avoid a negative effect on the company’s operations and business while the shareholders resolve their differences and the courts adjudicate claims. The cases Alonso takes on regularly require complex strategies focused on solutions that meet his clients’ goals and objectives. Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera (formerly Rivera Gaxiola y Asociados) is a law firm dedicated to litigation, made up of professionals who have the highest level of responsibility and care for its clients. Our main office is located in Mexico City and we have an office in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Our firm has practice throughout Mexico, through our own staff, and by strategic alliances with the most prestigious local firms. Rivera Gaxiola Carrasco y Barrera’s practices include: civil, commercial and administrative litigation in its vast areas, such as bankruptcy proceedings, financial restructuring, shareholder disputes, national and international commercial arbitration, telecommunications, anti-trust, aviation and maritime law, amongst others. “Our firm specializes in civil, commercial and administrative litigation and our practice covers each and every type of litigation in those areas. The added individual experience of our members is incomparable. Some of our partners have more than 20 years of experience litigating at the most diverse courts, both local and federal, in Mexico, in addition to participating in countless disputes that involve bi-national and multi-national litigation. Also, Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the best firms specialized in litigation and in bankruptcy proceedings. Our practice includes the defense of companies under court supervised restructuring proceedings, as well as creditors and government agencies. We have participated not only in countless national proceedings, but the most relevant ones in Mexico, as well as in parallel proceedings in other jurisdictions. Our practice includes counsel and representation to national, international and multi-national entities, governments and governmental agencies. We continuously and very specifically face conflicts between shareholders and their by-laws and regulations, both in public and in privately-owned companies. We know which situation could lead to a

potential dispute, and we either pave the road to mitigate it, or we identify the moment when it is convenient to take actions for our clients. Additionally, we counsel our clients on how to face actions when they are brought up by antagonist groups. In our practice we have represented multiple companies in procedures and amparos (constitutional challenge) against laws, regulations and several general rules. We also provide representation against different administrative actions like those related to public bids and administrative rescission proceedings, for instance. We have great ability and experience in arbitration, having participated in several national and international proceedings, in accordance with the ICC and AAA rules, among others. We have the experience necessary to counsel any operator in the aeronautic, maritime and port industries. Our counsel is not only limited to administrative proceedings directly related to the industry, but includes any other related conflict and dispute, be it against authorities or between individuals.” Despite the economic recession being experienced globally and locally, the biggest challenge for Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera was to ensure that the economic downturn would not affect our customers in the way that is happening in the rest of the world, by ensuring the effective completion of those procedures entrusted to this firm. In addition, today's world requires professionals prepared to face the new challenges that society increasingly demands. The market has become competitive with professional degree in law being graduated by thousands each year, and that is why RGCyB believes on added values of an attorney to stand out from the crowd professionals. Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera has always pursued excellence and success from rigorous recruitment processes for paralegals, lawyers and other professionals involved in the firm in order to maintain the highest levels of competitiveness, with full commitment of all our members with the objectives of this law firm and our clients. We have a large capacity network and its success largely depends increasingly on our ability to interact with other law firms and potential customers. Rivera Gaxiola, Carrasco y Barrera is a law firm that can overcome any obstacle given the strength and solidarity of our team work, effort, knowledge and effectiveness, in costumer benefits. We are professionals able to innovate, to generate favorable results for our clients, and be a trusted agent that transmits honesty, solidarity and confidence. We are increasing our number of of-counsels and making strategic alliances with other professionals that potentially complement our development as a leading law firm in México. Contact Details •Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho 32, 11th floor Torre Esmeralda III, Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de México, CP 11000 Distrito Federal, México. • Telephone: +52 55 1084 1230 • contacto@rgcyb.com

Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ukraine The ANK Law Firm founded in 1996 in the port city of Odessa, provides for complex legal support of citizens and enterprises whose personal and commercial interests in some way concern the Odessa region. Taking into account the special nature of the Odessa region ANK Law Firm, since the moment of its foundation, pays special attention to the sea law. Without prejudice to others, legal support of merchant shipping activity is still one of our most valuable and favorite practices. At the same time, ANK doesn't restrain itself to the area of sea practice. Any issues of real estate, tax, corporate, civil, labour and many other "overland" branches of law are equally close to us. Professional resources of the ANK Law Firm allow us to function as a self-sufficient mechanism able to provide for exhaustive legal evaluation of the business entity's activity, to work out individual strategy of protection of client's interests and, actually, to realize such strategy by means of complex legal support. From the point of view of organization the ANK follows the principle of internal specialization: the firm personnel includes qualified specialists, whose sphere of interests was defined in the course of their professional development and experience in different branches of law practice. The client may be sure of the competence of our lawyers advice. Any services rendered by the firm are available in four languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian, and German. The ANK maintains close contacts with lawyers from Austria, Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, the Russian Federation, the USA, Turkey and other countries that allows to react promptly and engage foreign colleagues when it is required for the protection of our clients interests. The ANK Law Firm supports numerous non-commercial projects. They include the assistance to bodies of state authority and local government by consulting and independent legal analysis of legal acts. The ANK renders complex legal assistance to the Honourable consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Odessa. Contact Details 9, Lanzheronovskaya Str., Odessa, 65026, Ukraine. +38 (0482) 348 716 office@ank.odessa.ua

Corporate Law Firm of the Year – France Founded in 1920, Cabinet Ratheaux has, over the years, taken part in the creation and development of a considerable number of large corporations in Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes region, and still continues to help its clients in their National and International development. Cabinet Ratheaux has strong expertise in the field of business law covering company, tax and labour law, law of contract, economic law, securities and regulation law, venture capital law, Intellectual property law and acts either as a legal advisor or takes care of litigation matters. The companies which have chosen Cabinet Ratheaux come from large retail, industrial chemical, metallurgical, plastics and the pharmaceutical industries, as well as automobile manufacturing suppliers, IT and software services or venture-capital companies. Cabinet Ratheaux also regularly advises a variety of national and International groups. Cabinet Ratheaux main Lyon office consists of about fifty diversely specialized professionals and is managed by ten partners. It is recognized as one of the leading business law firms in France. Awarded best French full service law firm. Areas of Practice Tax Law Corporate Law Labour Law Contracts Competition – Sales Litigation Law Company Financial Reorganization – Debt Collection Intellectual Property New Technology International Relations Contact Details Cité Internationale 34 Quai Charles de Gaulle 69463 Lyon Cedex 06 E-mail : ratheaux@ratheaux.fr Phone: +33 (0)4 72 61 75 75 Fax: +33 (0)4 78 60 00 09

International Tax Law Firm of the Year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brazil Intercorp Group is a high level consulting firm specializing in Tax, Estate Planning and Fiduciary structures. Our team consists of professionals with extensive experience. With this, we operate in a very unique way in addressing issues of taxation, accounting and international transactions. Once we have assisted our clients in determining their needs, our primary purpose is to facilitate and coordinate the development and implementation of the steps involved in their project. Intercorp Group was established under the guidance of Leonardo Braune with the purpose of becoming one of the few truly international tax consulting boutiques, providing high quality tax services as well as estate planning and fiduciary structuring services, delivering to its clients only the most efficient, practical and customized solutions. Our initial step is to assign one of our qualified coordinators, who will act throughout the entire advisory and consulting process. Our coordinators have access to an international network of professionals and specialists in many areas and are responsible for "playing the role of the client", being therefore extremely capable of clarifying questions and giving suggestions and practical solutions to their issues. Commitment, creativity, technicality, quality and reliability are our core strengths. At Intercorp Group, our clients can have direct or indirect access to a unique global network of specialists and professionals who will work in a simple, clear and objective manner. Our goal is to make our clients feel confident and comfortable that we are handling their matters properly and efficiently. For over 20 years, Leonardo Braune has acted as a tax consultant in the areas of international tax, real estate planning, wealth preservation, fiduciary advice, implementation and management of international structures and project management. He began his career as a trainee at Arthur Andersen where he quickly became Senior Manager of the tax consulting area, acting significantly in many segments there and working very closely with several international offices on significant global projects. With a vast experience in tax, an extremely diversified client base and a very strong global network of top specialists in many different business related areas, Leonardo Braune has been a part of a large number of successful projects in several industries such as oil and gas, telecommunications, real estate, international services, investment funds and asset management. Contact Details leonardo@intercorpgroup.com Rio de Janeiro T + 55 21 3282 5288

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About LGS In our more than 29 years of service, we have secured our position as the premier Indonesian corporate transaction and commercial litigation law firm. We have over a hundred lawyers and experience representing a diverse range of clients, including domestic and multinational corporations, public and private companies, Government instrumentalities and State Owned Enterprises. We work closely with our clients to understand their problems, determine their needs, and arrive at practical solutions that are both cost-effective and viable over the long term. Representative Clients Adaro Indonesia; American Bureau of Shipping; Astra International; Astratel Nusantara; Bank Mandiri; Charoen Pokphand Indonesia; DBS Bank Ltd; Goldman Sachs; Hitachi; Hutchison (Hong Kong); Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund; Indonesian State Electricity Company (PLN); Japan Tobacco International Indonesia; Krakatau Steel; Liga Primer Indonesia (LPI); Medco Energi International; Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia; Mitsui & Co., Ltd; Mitsui Banking Corporation; Mitsui Indonesia; Pamapersada Nusantara; Sampoerna Strategic; Sime Darby (Malaysia); Simpson, Spence & Young (SSY); Standard Chartered Bank; Sumitomo; Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited; and Unilever Indonesia. ISO LGS has obtained Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance certifications of ISO 9001:2008 for Quality Management systems and ISO 14001:2004 for Environmental Management systems to ensure that all aspects of the firm’s operations and the quality of services are on par with the most well managed companies and organizations in the world.

Our Practice Areas • ADR and Arbitration • Antitrust • Bank and Debt Restructuring • Banking and Secured Transactions • Bankruptcy • Capital Markets • Construction • Consumer Protection Defence Litigation • Corporate Finance • Distribution of Goods and Services • E-commerce

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