American Law Program 1998: Keith Rodda and his wife, Tina, announced the arrival of Helena Priscille Rodda on August 30, 2006. Lorena Vazquez is an associate at Clifford Chance in Madrid. 1999: Mathieu Guillaumond is working for Linklaters in Brussels. Pascal Marmier is an advisor for innovation and entrepreneurship at SHARE, Consulate of Switzerland, based in Cambridge, MA. Antonio Rocha Mendez works for Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, Castelo Branco in London. 2000: Sabine Glutsh and Andreas Wilhelm welcomed their second daughter, Sophie, born on September 24, 2006 in Zürich. Nele Gorny is an associate at Clifford Chance in Frankfurt. Roberto Grane is with Baker & McKenzie in Buenos Aires. Alan Kato is senior associate at Del Rosario Hechanova Bagamasbad & Raboca. Tomas Leonard is living in Washington, DC, working as an associate at Winston & Strawn. Matthias Orthwein joined Luther at the Munich office. Ludger Schult has returned to Germany as an associate in Munich with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Felix Skala works in Hamburg for a mid-size law firm, Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff. 2001: Gabriela Roitburd Brant de Carvalho is in house counsel with Philips de Brasil Ltda in Sao Paolo and is now the proud mother of two children, Rafael and Carolina. Hubert Eisenack recently completed his tax advisor examinations (Steuerberater) and is with the Financial Serivces/Tax division of KPMG in Frankfurt. Stefanie Fleischman is an associate in the NY office of Paul Weiss. Alex Gilardini is a member of the law firm Studio Legale Gilardini in Torino. Daniel Kaut has joined the Nürnberg office of the German firm Beiten Burkhardt where he works in the corporate group, specializing in M&A. Kanchan Ketkar has moved back to the U.S. to work at the Princeton, NJ, headquarters of Bristol Meyers as in-house counsel. Tomoko Ogi and Ulrich Kirschoff are engaged. Andrea Parra is working as staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, WA. Marco Rechenberg is working in Berlin as in-house counsel for a Hamburg-based media company. Malte Reiss is in Dubai, U.A.E., where he is working for MeyerReumann Legal Consultancy. Tobias Wintermantel is at Allen and Overy in Frankfurt, where he is a member of the corporate department. 2002: Teeshna Bahadur is in India, working for a Michigan-based law firm, Lexadigm Solutions LLC. Vera Caimo has joined the firm Claeys and Engels in Brussels. Juliana Lara Calil is working in Torrance, CA, as the Legal Coordinator for Keenan & Associates. Rudy Coram has returned to the U.S. from Lebanon and has been admitted to the J.D. program at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. Beatriz Escudero has been working in Madrid at Indra Sistemas, S.A. as an in-house legal counsel for international defence affairs. Jose Sanchez Gil Hernandez Urtiz has been promoted to Partner at Robles, Tostado, Corona & Sanchez Gil. Kai Graf von der Recke is working at Haver & Mailänder in Stuttgart. Leila Hubeaut is the proud mother of a baby girl named Morgane. Gulzada Korkmaz lives in Cambridge, MA, and works at Oxigene, Inc. Lisandra Melzer and her husband, Eduardo, announced the birth of their son, Felipe Goulart Sirotsky Melzer, who arrived July 7, 2006, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Francisco Ossa runs his own firm in Santiago. Julio S. Quiroga has launched his own sports management company in Buenos Aries, called TMC. Kozo Watabe is working in the legal department of Procter and Gamble in Kobe, Japan. 2003: Ichiro Ashihara is in-house counsel for Aflac in Tokyo. Jennifer Carrel is now working in Paris for UGGC & Associés. Henri-Pierre Dupraz is an associate in Schellenberg Wittmer’s corporate and M&A group in Geneva. Unni Fredheim has moved to Geneva, where she works at MCT Asset Management. Jan Giedenhagen has joined Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Bonn. Yeon Kab Lee retired from the judiciary in August 2006 to become a law professor at Yonsei University. Daniela Lessa is in the Sao Paolo office of Demarest e Almeida.
Kyrill Makoski is completing his doctoral thesis in Düsseldorf, while working at a law firm specializing in health law. Luca Melchionna is now the Director of Transnational Programs at St. John’s University School of Law in New York. Louis Pailles is at Basham, Ringe & Correa in Mexico. Francois Plassoux is an associate at the Paris firm, Shubert Collin. David Quinke completed his Referendariat and has joined Baker & McKenzie in Düsseldorf. Sangeeta Sindwani and her husband, Raj, welcomed their new baby girl, Sienna Vidya Sindwani, on Mother’s Day, 2006. Jens Steinmuller has joined the Berlin office of Poellath and Partners. 2004: Maria Costantini is setting up her own law firm and will soon be teaching in two Universities. Marcel Enz is in-house counsel in the corporate legal services department of Schindler Management Ltd. in Ebikon, Switzerland. Yuanyi (Richard) Fang is now attending Penn State University Dickinson School of Law’s J.D. program. He and his wife, Yvonne, are the proud parents of their new baby daughter, Mia. Julia Fidenzio is working as an international lawyer for the American Pets Products Manufacturers Association in Greenwich, CT. Olivier Fruehwirth (Pack) works as in-house lawyer for Immoconsult Leasinggesellschaft m.b.H., in Austria. Taro Kaiho has returned to Hitachi, Japan where he is now in charge of securities issues between Japan and the United States. Shigeru Kaneda has resumed his work as an attorney at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in Tokyo. Joachim Knoll moved to Geneva, where he is an associate at LALIVE, the boutique arbitration firm. Caroline Ming is working as international legal counsel for SGS Group Management in Geneva. Lauracelis Roques is working for the Governor of Puerto Rico as deputy legal counsel. Matthias Staedeli is an attorney with Rentsch & Partner, in Zurich. Gosia Torzecka and her husband, Gabriele, happily announced the birth of their daughter, Amelia, in August 2005. Christiane Wolff is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Fritze Paul Seelig, working on intellectual property matters. Jason Yao joined Acushnet Company and is based in Hong Kong. 2005: Rajiv Amlani works in Florida for LegalEase Solutions. Satoru Ariwaka and Daisuke Takei are working in the Singapore office of Shimizu Corporation. Eiji Hagio has returned to the Corporate Affairs Department at Tokyo Electric Power Company. Koh Hinokawa and Hirofumi “George” Yamamoto were married this fall in Hawaii. Yasuto Imai has returned to Tokyo and to his previous position in the Legal Department of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. Alexander Israel has begun work as an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Cologne. Atsushi Isokawa is in charge of contract review and other legal issues at the legal department of Alps Electronic. Georg Jacobs is working at an intellectual property law boutique, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, in Düsseldorf. Pauline Loiseleur des Longchamps completed her Masters at Paris II, and will begin an internship at Dechert LLP in Paris. Marta Ortiz is working at the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals. Hisahito Osuka is a member of the Legal Department of Astellas Pharma Inc. in Tokyo. Kai Rueting is at Taylor Wessing in Düsseldorf, where he specializes in Intellectual Property. Rafael Sanz is working in the International Fixed Income Group of Pail Capital in New York. Aditi Shah got married this December in India. Sarah Zafrani Sidi and husband, Sam, are the proud parents of baby Rebecca. 2006: Chika Araki (Igarashi) returned to Tokyo to assume a position as a corporate associate at Asahi Koma Law Offices. Bjoern Grund has moved to Berlin to start a Referendariat clerkship. Takuhiro Homma is now in Singapore, working for Kelvin Chia Partnership. Also in Singapore is Daisuke Takei, who is working as in-house counsel for Shimizu Corporation. Deborah Journo has begun working for August & Debouzy in Paris. Kazuo Kubo is stationed in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he is working as the Chief Legal Officer for ALPS Electric Europa, a subsidiary of ALPS Electric Co. Santiago Lynch is in NY at Fox, Horan & Camerini LLP. Jesus Perez is the new chief of regulation in
the Colombian agency that oversees and regulates industry and commerce. Maricarmen Valls is now working in Mexico at América Móvil, Latin America’s largest wireless company, and recently got engaged.
Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law 1986: William M. Scott IV is a partner in the finance and bankruptcy practice at the firm of Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles, CA. 1989: Kevin Kane is president of Financial Regulatory Consulting in New York City, a firm specializing in bank compliance. Valerie J. McNevin is Senior International Legal Advisor for the remittances and payments project of the Bank of Bangladesh and is currently based in Dacca. 1990: John Maalouf has a private law practice in New York City and was recently ranked #5 in the United States in the area of International Trade and Finance in the United States Lawyer Rankings for the year 2006. 1992: Rene Roman is a presiding administrative law judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings (Sacramento Region) and teaches at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. William W. Broadfoot III has a private law practice in Atlanta, GA. Hsu Jean Chiu is the director of the Banking Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan. 1993: Michael Atzwanger is managing director of Pension Plan Centrum, s.p.a., which provides administrative and financial services to pension funds. He lecures on the economics of pension funds at the Italian universities of Trento and Macerata. 1994: Franco Grilli is a partner of the capital markets and Structured Finance Division of Clifford Chance in Rome. Giuseppe Scagliarini has a private law practice in Newport, RI. 1996: Juan Berger is a partner at the firm of Berger, Pemueller & Asociados in Guatemala. 1999: Cedric Kinschots and Tesorina Chen reside in New York City where Cedric is an associate in the M&A department of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. 2000: Rose de Vries is an associate at the firm of Hunter Maclean in Savannah, GA. Alexander Stampf is a senior underwriter specializing in financial risks and profit center financial institutions at Munich Reinsurance Company in Munich. 2001: John A. Beccia has recently moved to Boston Private Wealth Management Group, where he is senior vice president and assistant general counsel. Mitchell Carroll is of counsel at Bingham McCutchen in Boston, specializing in project and structured finance, energy commercial and corporate finance. Piergiorgio Leofreddi is a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance in Rome, Italy. Pedro Velasco de la Pena is an associate at Creel, Garcia-Cuellar y Muggenberg in Mexico City. Valerie Voloj works for Banco Continental de Panama in Panama. 2002: Patrick Natale is a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, representing the towns of Woburn, Reading and Stoneham. Kuan-Chun (Johnny) Chang has completed his JSD degree at the Georgetown University Law Center. Kathryn Colson is an associate at DLA Piper in New York City. Gabriela Romitti Rossi is an associate at Pires de Oliveira Dias Avogados in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Robin Sheedy Bunker is an associate at Hemenway & Barnes in Boston. Brandon Meadows is corporate counsel of Compass Bank in Birmingham, AL. 2003: Norman Knickle is attorney-adviser at the Boston District Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cathy Li is vice president of the Legal & Compliance Department of AIG Investments in Taiwan. Diego Soto Solera is a partner at FBS Advisors in San Jose, Costa Rica. Elias Sayegh graduated with an M.A. in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher
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