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Lawyers Worldwide Awards Magazine Super Lawyers 2019 Afschrift Tax Law Firm of the Year – Belgium AVRillo Conveyancing Law Firm of the Year – UK Boddy Matthews Solicitors Employment & Labour Law Firm of the Year – UK Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal Health & Safety Law Firm of the Year – Argentina Deep & Far Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan Dentons & Co Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year – Qatar Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer White Collar Defence Law Firm of the Year – Germany Law Firm LUBIS GANIE SUROWIDJOJO Arbitration & Litigation Advisor of the Year – Indonesia Law Office of Ramni Taneja Constitutional Law Firm of the Year – India Natividad Abogados Law Firm of the Year – Mexico Patentwalt Patent Attorney of the Year – Germany Studio Legale De Rosa Tax Law Firm of the Year – Italy Sturgeon Ventures LLP Start Up Compliance Consulting Firm of the Year – UK Tuli & Co Insurance Law Firm of the Year - India

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.

Yu-Li Tsai: Partner & Patent Attorney Practice area/industry focus: Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition, Litigation Career highlights: Mr Tsai is a patent attorney who holds a degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, both awarded from the National Taiwan University.

His practice covers patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing and litigation.

Mr Tsai also studied and gained a Master’s degree from the Law School, University of New Hampshire, also known as Franklin Pierce Centre for Intellectual Property. Upon graduation, he worked for InterDigital, Inc. in Delaware for a short period and later studied and passed the US Patent Registration Examination.

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 60% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. Certainly, we must also represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, MPS, Schott Glas, Toyo Ink, Motorola, Armani…

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 wellbelieved that such properties are key factors for peoples to properly and competently behave themselves.

Deep & Far (D&F) is willing to take challenges to prove that it is the best IP firm, and to verify its supreme competence by e.g.: 1) Sending to D&F a pending or granted patent for its comments about how it can improve the claims;

2) Sending to D&F a pending patent specification without the claims for it to draft the claims for comparison with the original claims; or 3) Sending to D&F and the firm the client is currently using at the same time an initial disclosure so that the client can compare and find out where better claims are.

Deep & Far assures the clients that no competitors can escape from the patent rights D&F safeguards for the clients at reasonable service fees.

Because the tough economic downturn we are encountering in Taiwan, we are also encountering severe price competition. This situation also leads to that there are too many poor quality patents being granted because most enterprises do not have proper knowledge of the importance of patents.

For example, they might only want to spend lower cost to file a patent application without considering the quality, or could not be alerted timely that narrow claims can protect their products of the current version only although there are reduced fees in responding to office actions. Therefore, the patent agents or firms of the enterprises sometimes cannot help but sacrificing the quality to keep profits under the limited budgets of the clients. Under such social environment, it is very hard to anticipate that the clients have strong patents, or the patent firms or attorneys can nurture the ability of drafting wonderful scope of the claims.

Accordingly, it will not be surprised to find that there are some patent firms which cannot provide competent services but offer extreme low price to attract clients only caring about the price of filing a patent. This does also explain that there are poor quality patents being granted We persist in providing quality service rather than participating into the price war because we believe the Client will finally find the quality is the most important thing for intellectual property. If you sacrifice the quality and surrender to the price, you actually get negative return because .a poor quality IP is valueless. We did suffer a little last year in view of the reduced local generated works, but we see the situation began to change this year.

This firm is used to focusing on IPR, and takes deliberate steps to practice in all fields of law. In recent year, we make progress in either general civil law, business law or criminal law fields.

Contact Details 13th Fl., 27 Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd., Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C. ': 886-2-25856688 7: 886-2-25989900/25978989 Email: email@deepnfar.com.tw www.deepnfar.com.tw

Patent Attorney of the Year - Germany PROFILE Legal office DR. WIELAND GROTH is an intellectual property law firm, specialized in providing legal advice in Patent-, Trademark- and Design Law. We advise in all technological intellectual property matters, primarily specialising in mechanical, engineering, optics, physics and electro technical engineering. We combine very cost efficient service with highly qualified technical and legal standards.

NOTABLE LEGAL WORK Even though we have large companies in our portfolio, our focus is on medium size enterprises, which are world market leaders in their field, and on advising emerging start-ups.

We mainly represent German companies but also foreign firms and universities.

Our company has an extensive experience in representing applicants and opponents in opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office in patent cases and the German Patent Office and Federal Patent Court in patent and trademark cases.

We regularly cooperate with international law firms in other countries and represent a large number of German, European, International patent, trademark and design applications.

ABOUT DR. WIELAND GROTH Dr. Wieland Groth, LL. M. is admitted as a German and European Patent Attorney.

He obtained a Master degree in Mathematics (Dipl.-Math.) and a Master degree in Physics (Dipl.Phys.) from the Technical University of Clausthal and the Imperial College of London. He holds a Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.nat.) in Mathematical Physics from the Technical University of Clausthal.

Wieland also obtained a Master degree of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Hagen.

Prior to founding his own private practice, Wieland worked for several years in renowned Northern German Law firms.

Wieland Groth is a regular speaker at international conferences.

He is, inter alia, a member of GRUR-The German Association for the protection of intellectual property, INTA-The International Trademark Association, AIPPI-Association Internationale pour la Protection de la PropriĂŠtĂŠ Intellectuelle, FICPI-International Federation of Intellectual Property attorneys and DPG- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

AREAS OF PRACTICE Patents and Utility Models Employee Inventions Trademarks Designs Licences Prior Art Searches FTO searches Monitoring Litigation CONTACT DETAILS Zippelhaus 4 20457 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 40 303 757 30 Email: mail@grothpatent.com Website: www.grothpatent.com

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Tax Law Firm of the Year – Belgium The Afschrift Law Firm is more than just an association of tax lawyers. All our members share the same vision of our profession and support the same commitment to advise and defend taxpayers, be they individuals or businesses, both in Belgium and abroad.

Created in 1994 by Thierry Afschrift, this law firm brings together lawyers with extensive knowledge in every field of tax law in the widest sense of the term.

All our lawyers share the same values values. They fully understand the importance of adopting a global vision in every situation, in response to queries from our clients on the management of their professional businesses or their private assets. They also know that the success of their interventions depends upon speed, efficiency and confidentiality.

Aware of the increasing internationalisation of our clients’ private and professional activities and of the complex nature of their taxation matters, we have opened offices at Antwerp, Madrid, Geneva, Luxembourg, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. Clients who would like face-to-face meetings with our lawyers, may make appointments in any of these offices.

Our services: Lawyers in the Afschrift Law Firm advise, in equal measure, private individuals, companies and legal entities on every aspect of their business.

When it comes to taxation questions, these days it is vital to be versatile. The vast majority of business transactions carried out by taxpayers, whatever their nature and legal status, have some sort of tax implications. Our lawyers stand ready to provide assistance, from planning to the execution of these transactions, and to defend your interests when confronted by tax authorities, both in Belgium and abroad. To find out more, please click on the links below to see in detail the whole range of our services: •private individuals •international •Islamic finance •companies and legal entities Contact Details: Avenue Louise, 208 1050 BRUSSELS BELGIUM T +32 2 646 46 36 F +32 2 644 38 00

Product Liability Law Firm of the Year – Asia A leader in global litigation management, Carroll Burdick has over 60 lawyers on three continents, speaking more than 16 languages including German, English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Latvian, Romanian, Russian and Spanish, with over 20 percent of the firm’s lawyers having legal educations in two or more countries. This unparalleled experience provides the cultural insights necessary for effectively working with international clients to meet their business goals.

Founded in 1948 by three highly respected San Francisco lawyers—Jack Dale Burdick, Francis Carroll and Richard McDonough—Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP has enjoyed a stellar reputation for providing legal excellence, creativity, intellectual aggressiveness, and client confidence for over 65 years.

Practice Areas: Appellate

Media & Entertainment Law

Class Action

Mergers & Acquisitions

Commercial & Business Litigation

Patent and Intellectual Property Litigation

Construction Litigation Consumer Litigation Defence

Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Litigation

Corporate, Finance & Commercial Law

Privacy and Data Security

Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Products Liability Real Estate

Employment Litigation

Renewable Energy

Financial Institution Practice

Technology

Food and Beverage Litigation German Practice Insurance Coverage Litigation Intellectual Property International Business Mass Tort Litigation

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David Goh, managing partner at its Asia practice, has significant experience in large, complex and international commercial disputes, with particular emphasis on corporate issues and product liability matters. He also advises clients on regulatory matters, compliance, and anti-bribery/corruption cases, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act. His experience includes leading or coordinating investigations on behalf of both corporations and regulators, as well as advising or acting in the defence of any prosecutions.

In his more recent roles in senior management at various multinational corporations, Mr Goh developed significant experience in handling corporate and commercial matters, in particular, M&A transactions across the Asia Pacific region. He has developed proven methodologies in assisting companies to coordinate and manage their in-house and external legal service and continues to be consulted on such matters.

“Some cases carry more strategic weight than others. When your markets are threatened, when your business model is under pressure, when your operations are attracting lawsuits, then legal matters are no longer just about favourable results—it’s about your company’s core mission. At Carroll Burdick, we’re known for helping companies with matters of strategic value.”

Contact Details David Goh CARROLL, BURDICK & McDONOUGH LLP Suite 5904, 59/F Central Plaza 18 Harbour Road Wan Chai Hong Kong SAR Tel: +852.2511.1040

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Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA Firm Profile Scott & Scott, LLP is a boutique intellectual property and technology law firm with an emphasis on software licensing and disputes, technology transactions, and software copyright litigation. The firm is committed to monitoring the developing technology and emerging law in order to provide highly focused representation to clients that range from mature small businesses to publicly traded multi-national corporations.

Robert J. Scott Managing Partner 214.999.2902 rjscott@scottandscottllp.com

Robert J. Scott, Managing Partner, represents mid-market and large enterprise companies in software license transactions and disputes with major software publishers such as Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. He has defended over 225 software audit matters initiated by software piracy trade groups such as the BSA and SIIA. He is counsel to some of the world's largest corporations on information technology matters including intellectual property licensing, risk management, data privacy, and outsourcing.

He is regularly called upon by his peers and the media to share his expertise. His work has been published in Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Westlaw Journal Intellectual Property, The Licensing Journal, and Texas Lawyer among others.

Julie Machal-Fulks Partner 214.999.2905 jfulks@scottandscottllp.com Julie Machal-Fulks, Partner, leads a team of attorneys in representing and defending clients in legal matters relating to information technology. Her practice focuses on complex litigation ranging from privacy and network security, data breach notification and crisis management, intellectual property disputes, service provider negligence claims, and content-based injuries such as copyright and trademark infringement in software, the Internet, and all forms of tangible media.

Her focused practice has made Julie a trusted resource in her field. She is often invited to submit papers and present on topics including data breach notification, security incident response, software licensing and defense against regulatory and consumer class actions.

Texas Lawyer, The Licensing Journal, Texas Wesleyan Law Institute, American Bar Association, and the IT Compliance Institute are a few of the publications that have published Julie’s work.

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Intellectual Property IT Transactions Software Audits Software Licensing & Disputes

Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor of the Year – Germany GSK Stockmann + Kollegen is one of Germany's leading independent commercial law firms focusing on real estate, corporate, banking/finance and projects & public sector. GSK concentrates on handling projects and advising national and international businesses, banks and financial institutions, corporations and public bodies as well as governments and ministries.

GSK was established in 1997 as a coalescence of lawyers from leading German and international commercial law firms. Today, more than 140 lawyers and tax advisors, acquainted with international projects and transactions are at our clients' disposal in our offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Brussels and Luxembourg. We regularly advise our clients on crossborder transactions in conjunction with our alliance partners of the Broadlaw Group. The exclusive network includes more than 1000 lawyers, based in 28 cities, covering the most important financial and economic centres of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. For further information please visit www.broadlawgroup.com.

Practice Areas: Employment Law Compliance Corporate Real Estate Company Law IP / IT Capital Markets / Initial Public Offerings / Delistings Antitrust / Merger Control Groups and Affiliated Companies Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity / Venture Capital Privatization Restructuring and Insolvency Reorganizations and Changes of Registered Office (Seat) Corporate Finance Company Succession / Estate Planning Distribution Systems / Contract Law We understand our business and that of our clients. Our core competences have always particularly included the structuring of businesses and corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and assisting with strategically important projects.

We not only advise businesses and their owners, but we lend them support until the best solution has been reached.

Contact Details: Dr. Andreas F. Bauer Tel: +49 89 288174-0 Mail: andreas.bauer@gsk.de

Your Insurance Arbitration Specialists Prof. Dr. Joachim Frick is a partner at Baker & McKenzie and admitted to the bars of Switzerland and New York. He graduated from the University of Zurich (lic. iur, Dr. iur.) and Yale Law School (LL.M., J.S.D). After practicing with Baker & McKenzie in Taipei and Chicago, he in 1997 returned to Baker & McKenzie in Zurich and became a partner in 2001. He is admitted to practice in Switzerland and, in addition, has passed the New York Bar exam.

Joachim specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and has acted as party counsel in various Swiss and international arbitration proceedings under Swiss, ICC, ad hoc and other arbitration rules.

He regularly represents clients in particular in corporate, post m&a, liability, insurance and distributorship disputes and advises in litigious and non-litigious insurance/reinsurance matters.

In addition to being a practicing lawyer, he regularly teaches as professor of law (Titularprofessor) at the University of Zurich and is a lecturer in a number of graduate programs. He was repeatedly named leading attorney in insurance and reinsurance matters by specialized publications.

Joachim's practice combines disputes and arbitration work with a strong expertise in post m&a and insurance matters. Given the global reach of Baker McKenzie with more than 70 offices around the world, Joachim's clients often have an international or foreign background.

In particular in Financial Services and other regulatory matters, the international firm Baker McKenzie allows to conduct multijurisdictional surveys on a global basis.

While we cannot disclose client names, Joachim Frick regularly advises major Swiss and international financial institutions (banks, insurers, brokers, etc.) on regulatory matters. Also, Joachim Frick regularly represents foreign corporate clients in arbitration proceedings with seat of arbitration in Switzerland and/or governed under Swiss law.

Contact Details: Joachim Frick Prof. Dr., LL.M./J.S.D. Baker & McKenzie Zurich Holbeinstrasse 30, P.O. Box 8034 ZĂźrich, Switzerland Tel: +41 44 384 14 14 Fax: +41 44 384 12 84 Direct: +41 44 384 12 31 Email: joachim.frick@bakermckenzie.com

Franchising Law Firm of the Year – USA The Richard L. Rosen Law Firm, PLLC and its predecessors have been providing high quality legal services for over 40 years. While the firm is located in New York City, at 110 East 59th Street, and services many clients in the tri-state area, it also represents franchise clients nationwide. The Richard L. Rosen Law Firm has earned Martindale Hubbell’s highest rating for legal ability and integrity, listed

by US News and World Report as being among the best franchise law firms in the United States and Richard Rosen is rated amongst Martindale Hubbell’s list of Preeminent Attorneys. In 2018 The Richard L. Rosen Law Firm, PLLC was named one of the 50 Best Law Firms in the World by LegalComprehensive.com.

As practitioners in the field of franchise law for over 40 years, the Firm is familiar with virtually every franchise related issue that its clients may face, whether it be buying or selling a franchise, negotiating a lease for a new restaurant, setting up a franchise program and preparing the necessary agreements and disclosure documents, forming or counseling a franchisee association or litigating, arbitrating, mediating (or negotiating) a dispute. The Firms experience, gained in hundreds of transactions, enables it to guide and counsel its clients effectively and efficiently wherever they are located.

Richard L. Rosen, the founding member of The Richard L. Rosen Law Firm, PLLC, has been actively engaged in the practice of franchise law in New York City for over 40 years, during which time he has represented countless franchisors and franchisees, both as counsel and as a business adviser.

Richard Rosen has been engaged in virtually all aspects of franchising during his career. He has counselled and represented franchisors in the setting up of franchising systems and programs; formed franchising entities; drafted and negotiated franchise agreements, multi-unit area development agreements, master franchise agreements, registration statements, disclosure and other ancillary franchise documents; represented franchisees and franchisee associations; litigated in both state and federal courts; and mediated, arbitrated and litigated matters on behalf of both franchisors and franchisees. He has represented franchisors and franchisees in virtually every field, including: fast food, fitness, education, senior care, clothing sales, real estate brokerage, eyewear, auto care, party planning, health care, coffee shops, ice cream shops, fitness and gyms, employee staffing, nutrition centers, child care and learning, tanning salons, yogurt shops, gas and service stations, sign design and more.

Mr. Rosen is a founding member and immediate past chairman of the Franchise, Distribution and Licensing Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, a member of the Steering Committee of the National Franchise Mediation Program, The CPR Institute For Dispute Resolution, Distinguished Panel of Neutrals and a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is the chairman of the American Association of Franchisees and Dealers’ Fair Franchising Standards Committee and a member of the AAFD’s board of directors. In 2008 he received the AAFD’s Total Quality Franchising Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of franchising. Richard Rosen and his firm have earned MartindaleHubbell’s highest rating for legal ability and integrity, and Richard is rated amongst Martindale

Hubbell’s list of Preeminent Attorneys. Richard has frequently lectured on a variety of franchise topics before various groups and organizations, including the American Bar Association, the International Franchise Association, the New York State Bar Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Association of Franchisees and Dealers. He has been interviewed on both television and radio, the American Bar Association Journal, the Franchise Times and Forbes Magazine, regarding franchising. Mr. Rosen is a contributor to “Franchising 101, The Complete Guide to Evaluating, Buying and Growing Your Franchise Business” compiled by the Association of Small Business Development Centers and has written many articles on the legal and business aspects of franchising. Mr. Rosen and his firm are the authors of the sections on Franchise Law in the United States which appear in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions of the (International) Franchise Law Review, as well as the US Franchise Law Analysis which appears in The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Franchise, in both the 2017 and 2018 Editions.

Mr. Rosen is listed in: Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in American Law; Who’s Who in the World; Best Lawyers in America; “101 Best Franchise Lawyers in America” (the Franchise Times); the Franchise Times’ “Hall of Fame” of Franchise Attorneys (a charter member); Best Lawyers in the US; Franchise Attorney of the Year, New York, 2015; America’s Super Lawyers; Best Attorneys In America; Who’s Who Legal: Franchise; and International Who’s Who Legal (compendium edition), and is a recipient of the Global Award for Franchise Law. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Richard Rosen was named Franchise Attorney of the Year for the United States by Lawyer Monthly. He received the Global 100 Award as Franchise Attorney of the Year in the USA in 2017. Richard was named Franchise Lawyer of the Year in the United States by Intercontinental Finance and Law in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Richard was named one of the 100 Best Attorneys in the World by LegalComprehensive.com.

Richard L. Rosen and his firm are engaged in a general, commercial practice which includes active involvement in the fields of franchising, corporate, real estate and trust and estates law. Mr. Rosen has been a real estate developer for many years and has represented many commercial clients in their real estate development, acquisition and leasing endeavors. The firm also maintains an active state and federal court litigation practice and regularly engages in other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Contact Details: The Richard L. Rosen Law Firm PLLC 110 E. 59th Street, 23rd Floor New York, NY 10022 212-644-6644 212-644-3344 (fax) www.richardrosenlaw.com

Max Blitt QC Child Abduction Lawyer of the Year – Canada Max Blitt, Q.C. has personally been involved in assisting clients and legal counsel to recover children that have been abducted by parents and relatives to other Provinces in Canada, the United States, Poland, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, South Africa, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Australia, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Jordan, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Turkey, and Nigeria.

Professional Experience: 1974-1975 Wolfman & Company. Articling Position Practiced Criminal Law (Provincial, Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal), Civil Law, Family Law, Wills and Estates.

1975-1985 Karasick, Blitt and Company, Partner Set up firm and expanded to four lawyers. Practiced in above areas of law, with greater emphasis on family law and real estate.

1985-1989 Blitt, Lirenman and Company. Senior Associate. Practiced heavily in family law area and real estate.

1989-Present Spier Harben (formerly Spier Prasow and Blitt merged with Harben Aaron & Rynd). Practiced civil litigation (emphasis on family law, personal injury and general), real estate, wills and estates.

2013 Appointed Queen’s Counsel Contribution to the community: Child Find Canada - Volunteer Director, 1995-1997 Child Find Alberta - President, 1993-1995 Child Find Alberta - Past President, 1995-1997 Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter -Board Member Canadian Cancer Society - Volunteer Calgary Zoo, Trustee, 1999-2008 Calgary Zoo Foundation, Past-Chairman Calgary Legal Guidance - Lawyer Volunteer Contribution to legal profession: Appointed to Legal Aid Appeals Committee 2014; Current Volunteer Calgary Legal Guidance;

Past Volunteer University of Calgary Student Legal Services; Court Appointed Dispute Resolution Officer 2006 to Present; Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (Bar Admission Course) 2008-Present Negotiations Assessment and Advocacy Instructor ASSIST Volunteer 2012 to Present February 2016 Volunteer Judge for University of Calgary Law Students Mock Civil Trial at Court of Queen’s Bench, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Contribution to legal scholarship through teaching or research: Speaker, Child Find Alberta 1989 Conference, Legal Aspects of Child Abduction.

Panellist, CFCN TV Re: Child Abductions.

Canadian Bar Association, Mid-Winter Meeting Organizing Committee - Legal Aspects of Child Abduction.

November 12, 2000 Member of Canadian Delegation Second International Forum on Parental Child Abduction (Hague Convention Cases), Washington, D.C. October/November 2003 Article contained in Law Now, University of Alberta, International Child Abductions.

December 2003 Speaker, AMECO (Association of Missing and Exploited Children's Organization) Case Manager Training Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.

April 2005 October Speaker Northwest Coalition of Missing Children Investigators and Professionals Symposium, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

May/June 2005 Speaker, Prairie Regional Our Missing Children Conference, Canada Border Services Agency, Calgary, Alberta.

2007 Washington, D.C. attended the 44th Annual Conference of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC); "Judicial Officers Forum: International Child Abduction" and "International Child Abduction: risk Factors and Prevention."

March 2009 Ottawa - Conference Presenter, Department of Foreign Affairs, Overview of International Children's Issues.

09/10 Tokyo, Japan - Member of Canadian Delegation, Study Session on the 1980 Hague Convention, Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Hosted by Canadian Embassy.

September 2009 Ismaili’s [Muslim] International Mediation Training – Vancouver.

November 2009 Mount Royal University - Conference - "Early Adverse Experience and Childhood Brain Development."

October 2010 Vancouver, BC - International Bar Association, Presenter Mock Trial of a full Hague Convention International Child Abduction Case.

January 2011 Law Now Article "Cross-Cultural Mediation," University of Alberta.

February/March 2011 Invited to present to the Alberta and Manitoba Judges Continuing Legal Education Conference [National Judicial Institute] on issues involving internationally and Domestically Abducted Children.

March 2011 Invited to Present at the International Family Law Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on the Canadian Perspective on Hague Convention Applications on International Child Abductions.

March 2011 Appointed to the Practice Note "7" Committee Regarding the Use of Independent Parenting Experts, Chaired by Madam Justice Andrea Moen.

November 2011 Invited to Present to the International Bar Association in Dubai, on the Canadian Perspective on Sharia Law and Enforcement of Orders from Non-Hague Convention Countries.

January 2012 Alberta Law Conference, Calgary, Alberta - Chair Person regarding the law relating to internationally and Domestically Abducted Children September 2012 Published Paper on the Voice of the Child in Hague Convention Child Abduction cases for the International Bar Association Newsletter.

March 2013 6th World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights, Sydney Australia Presented on the Voice of the Child in the context of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abductions.

August 2013 Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Presenter on the Hague Convention and the Rights of the Child to Legal Representation.

September 2013 Challenges Facing Counsel For Children in the Context of the Hague Convention, International Bar Association, IBA Global Insight.

October 2013 Presenter, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pluralistic Societies: International and Local Experiences, His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili’s Council for Canada, McDougal Centre, and Calgary.

April 2014 Canadian Bar Association Webinar, Hague Convention on International Child Abductions and Child’s Objection to Return.

April 2014 IBA Newsletter Article “The Hague Convention and the Rights of Children:” Bala, Blitt, and Blackburn.

May 2014 Canadian Bar Association-Comment on R.M. v. J.S.: Alberta Court of Appeal on The Hague Convention and Evidence of Children’s Objections.

June 2015 International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Quebec City, Quebec, Presentation on The Canadian Experience regarding the Hague Convention and Recent Case Trends.

Max Blitt Member of the Law Society of Alberta Other Law Society Memberships: Canadian Bar Association Alberta bar Association Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (International) Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association Law Society of Alberta 2011 Family Law Advisory Committee 2011 Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta Practice Note "7" Committee 2012 Canadian bar Association National Children's Law Committee International bar Association UK and Wales International Law Society Membership American Bar Association, International Division, International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Contact Details: Max Blitt QC SPIER HARBEN 1400,707 - 7TH AVENUE S.W. CALGARY, ALBERTA T2P 3H6 Phone: (403)699-1257 Fax: (403) 699-1359 Email: mblitt@spierharben.com Website: www.childabduct.com

International Trade Law Firm of the Year – Portugal With headquarters in the centre of the cities of the Lisboa and Porto for a more efficient management, M-Star View Law Office offers full legal services to customers in Portugal, as well as everywhere in the world: Australia, Latin America, Angola, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Arab Emirates, United States of America, etc, what much contributed for its growth and solidification in the legal market.

The M-Star View Law Office is an office of lawyers thought to support companies, individual entities of public nature and people, sponsoring the accomplishment of its legal-economic interests, supporting the internationalization of the companies and their businesses, giving services to citizens and Portuguese companies whom they intend to invest in the foreigner, as well as the not resident citizens and foreign companies in Portugal.

Natively multilingual (Portuguese and English as main languages, French and Spanish as subsidiary languages), the M-Star View Law Office is guided by professionals, whose experience acquired until our days allows them to offer solutions to its customers in a sufficiently reduced time of reply and to achieve ambitious projects in partnership for win-win.

The legal work of our professionals is developed with the aid of a specific software of last generation, that functions in net system, looking itself to maximize the results and to allow proximity in the attendance of the customers, in a strict management of information.

Since 2017, M-Star View Law Office has achieved the very small group of Portuguese Law Firms recommended by Global Law Experts (GLE), the premier guide to leading attorneys throughout the world, an organization that recommend just one legal expert in each key practice area and country.

M-Star View Law Office was designated in Companies Legal Practices.

Practice Areas: Company Commercial Data Privacy Debt Recovery Labour Procurement Environment Real Estate Litigation Banking Insurance Civil Foreign & European Law Criminal Industrial Property Contact Details: Avenida da Boavista, Edif. Oceanvs nÂş 3265, 1.4 4100-137 Porto Portugal Tel. 00 351 226 106 13

Law Office of Ramni Taneja Constitutional Law Firm of the Year – India Born on 4th December 1955 in New Delhi, Ramni Taneja is a citizen of India, having been educated in Mumbai, India, and London, England. She enrolled as an Advocate on 17th October 1980, on the Roll of the Bar Council of Maharashtra, [Mumbai], India; subsequently transferred to the Bar Council of Delhi, India, on 20th October 1997. On 3rd March 1997, she was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, [now known as the Senior Courts of England and Wales]. In 1999, she was appointed as a Notary by the Government of India, New Delhi, India.

Since 1997, Ramni Taneja practises in New Delhi, India, as an Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi, apart from various other tribunals and courts in Delhi and in India. From 1980 till 1982 she practised as an Advocate with Little & Co., Advocates and Solicitors, Mumbai, India; she headed the office of Little & Co., Advocates, in New Delhi, India, from 2002 till 2006. From 1983 till 1997, Ramni Taneja was licensed and practised as a Legal Consultant with A.R. Hilal & Associates, Advocates and Legal Consultants, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her law firm, Law Office of Ramni Taneja, began in New Delhi, India in August 2006.

Ramni Taneja completed her school education in the United Kingdom [UK] at Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster, London, England, UK, as a consequence of which she obtained the University of London, General Certificate of Education, Ordinary Levels and Advanced Levels, between 1972-1974. She obtained her BA Honours [First Class Honours] Degree in English Literature [Major] French Literature [Subsidiary] in 1977 from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, India. She obtained her LLB Degree [First Class] in 1980 from Government Law College, University of Bombay, India. She was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes Françaises Modernes in 1975 by l’Alliance Française, Paris, France, [Mention Tres Honourable: i.e. Distinction] and was ranked first in the examination in 1975 in India and Asia.

Ramni Taneja is the author of Foreign Direct Investment and Globalisation, published by Eastern Book Company, 2014. She has written legal articles that have been published in international and Indian legal journals on various legal issues Ramni Taneja’s principal areas of legal practice covering litigation and transactional legal work are: all areas of commercial law, civil law, corporate law, constitutional law and criminal law.

Other areas of legal practice covering litigation and transactional law inter alia are: Arbitration [international and domestic], air law, banking law, consumer protection law, due diligence, direct and indirect taxation and international taxation, extradition law, laws relating to asylum, family law, foreign direct investment, including foreign exchange law, insurance law, initial public offerings, intellectual property law, infrastructure law, employment law, laws governing the media, mergers and acquisitions, immigration and nationality law, maritime law, succession law, private international law, public international law and property law.

Contact Details: RAMNI TANEJA, Advocate and Notary LAW OFFICE OF RAMNI TANEJA Address: A 34 DEFENCE COLONY NEW DELHI 110024, INDIA Telephones: +91 11 4155 2051; +91 11 4155 2052 Fax: +91 11 4155 2053 email id: ramni@ramnitaneja.com http://www.ramnitaneja.com/

International Employment Law Firm of the Year – Global Seyfarth Shaw LLP is an 800+ lawyer firm with global reach and unparalleled capabilities in international employment law.

The firm’s team of specialist international employment lawyers is the largest of its type globally, and its practice is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading practices in the area. All the partners in the international practice are internationally-trained, and each has assisted many of the world’s largest companies with numerous complex and highprofile global employment-related strategic, compliance and transactional projects across a wide range of industries. The team has experience across more than 170 countries, often working on projects covering up to 150 countries at one time.

The experience and credentials of Seyfarth’s international practice have led to its reputation as a global leader in the practice of international employment law and have positioned the team as ‘go to’ advisors for large multinational companies requiring strategic employment advice covering their global operations. Key areas of experience and expertise include: •

Structuring and implementing employment related strategic initiatives on a multijurisdictional basis

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Workplace policies and handbooks

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Terminations – individual and large scale reductions in force

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Workplace harassment, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity law matters

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Protection of employers' proprietary and confidential information

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Multi-jurisdictional privacy/data protection and employment law compliance issues

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Employment and contingent workforce arrangements and documentation

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Employment and labour issues arising from international mergers and acquisitions

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International outsourcing arrangements

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International workplace investigations

Seyfarth’s international employment team is located in key global locations and provides a true cross-border expertise. Its unique service model has been developed over a number of

years and is very well tested by many of the world’s largest companies. The team’s success is the result of a constant, unrelenting focus on the needs of its clients and a commitment to excellence using the strength of an integrated team-based approach to deliver international employment law services in a creative, innovative and commercial way.

Contact Details Key Contact: Darren Gardner – Chairman, International Practice Firm: Seyfarth Shaw LLP Email: dgardner@seyfarth.com Tel: +1 (415) 544-1018 Website: www.seyfarth.com

European Trademark Law Firm of the Year – Romania The foundation of Dennemeyer's extraordinary success story was laid 50 years ago in Luxembourg.

Since 1962, Dennemeyer has earned a reputation for setting the service standard in the IP industry and remains dedicated to discovering and developing improved ways to protect and preserve intellectual property rights around the world. Initially a patent law firm, Dennemeyer soon became a full-service provider, addressing our services to the entire chain of IP management. A succession of innovations has transformed the company headquartered in Luxembourg into one of the world's largest IP service providers.

Dennemeyer Group has a unique position in the global IP market. The combination of their global IP law firm, Dennemeyer & Associates; the IP management service provider, Dennemeyer IP Solutions; Dennemeyer Consulting; as well as the state-of-the-art IP management software, DIAMS iQ, makes Dennemeyer the sole “full service provider” for global IP management. Their customers benefit from their broad range of expertise – all within one provider.

Over more than five decades, their global presence has developed into more than 20 offices on all continents. Since 1962, they have continued to open offices to better serve their customers.

Dennemeyer believe that their customers deserve the best representation wherever they want to protect their IP; in their language and in their time zone.

The IP industry is currently undergoing massive changes. IP service providers worldwide have become the target of private equity investors. Dennemeyer believe that IP rights are not just a commodity. IP rights are some of the most valuable assets of a company. They also believe that the current developments in the IP industry do not inspire trust or confidence. Mergers and takeovers are fundamentally changing this industry and will lead to an increasing price pressure and consolidation. Dennemeyer continues to stand as an independent, trusted partner to customers.

Contact Details Dennemeyer & Associates SRL Raluca Judele (Director) Str. Aurel Vlaicu 94, 500178 Brasov Phone: + 40 268 41 2979 Fax: +40 268 412965 info@dennemeyer-law.com www.dennemeyer.com

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