Authors

Global Crisis Management
Handbook, Third Edition

Cleary Gottlieb lawyers involved in the production of the Global Crisis Management Handbook, Third Edition.

Asia

Nowell D. Bamberger
Partner

Washington, D.C.
T: +1 202 974 1752
Hong Kong
T: +852 2532 3785
nbamberger@cgsh.com
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Nowell Bamberger is a partner based in Cleary’s Washington, D.C. office.

His practice focuses on complex civil litigation and government investigations, with a particular focus on cross-border matters. He has experience representing clients in global investigations and complex civil litigation, both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region, including before authorities in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Victor Hou is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

His practice focuses on litigation, including government investigations, white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, corporate governance, and general commercial litigation. He has represented numerous financial institutions and multinational corporations in securities, antitrust, and other complex litigation, as well as in criminal and regulatory matters involving the DOJ, the SEC, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and state attorney general’s offices. Prior to joining the Firm in 2007, Victor was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Victor Hou
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2609
vhou@cgsh.com
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France

Jean-Yves Garaud
Partner

Paris
T: +33 1 40 74 68 00
jgaraud@cgsh.com
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Jean-Yves Garaud is a partner based in Cleary’s Paris office.

His practice focuses litigation, arbitration and white-collar criminal matters. He also has extensive experience in bankruptcy and competition matters.

Germany

Richard Kreindler is a partner based in Cleary’s Frankfurt office.

His practice focuses on international disputes matters. He has acted as counsel, arbitrator, and mediator in numerous commercial and investment-treaty based arbitrations, focused on energy, infrastructure, post-M&A, IP, and public international law.

Richard Kreindler
Partner

Frankfurt
T: +49 69 97103 160
New York
T: +1 212 225 2220
rkreindler@cgsh.com
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Rüdiger Harms
Counsel

Cologne
T: +49 221 80040 125
rharms@cgsh.com
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Rüdiger Harms is a counsel based in Cleary’s Cologne office.

His practice focuses on litigation and arbitration matters. He is well-versed in advising clients on a spectrum of commercial law, with particular experience in the automotive (including with respect to assisting a leading global automotive manufacturer in connection with emissions-related investigations as well as administrative and civil proceedings), technology, and consumables industries, and on the potential risks and rewards of litigation and helps them to develop and pursue effective strategies to achieve their goals in the context of their commercial needs. Rüdiger has 20 years of experience as an attorney, having previously worked as a criminal and civil judge at courts in Hamburg.

Italy

Pietro Fioruzzi is a partner based in Cleary’s Milan office.

His practice focuses on advising international and Italian corporate clients and investment banks on a wide range of corporate and financial matters, IPOs, and other capital markets transactions, corporate governance, securities regulatory issues, and public mergers and acquisitions. He advises public Italian companies as to board structure and practice and special committees, as well as on compensation and benefit matters, and represents clients in internal investigations as well as before Italian courts and agencies with regard to capital markets matters.

Pietro Fioruzzi
Partner

Milan
T: +39 02 7260 8214
pfioruzzi@cgsh.com
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Francesca Gesualdi
Counsel

Milan
T: +39 02 7260 8276
fgesualdi@cgsh.com
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Francesca Gesualdi is a counsel based in Cleary’s Milan office.

Her practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration. She regularly represents domestic and foreign clients in a wide range of disputes, including class actions, involving corporate, commercial, banking, and financial matters, as well as bankruptcy and competition issues across numerous industries, including energy and media.

Latin
America

Lisa Vicens is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

Her practice focuses on advising public companies and their boards in internal and governmental investigations, in particular with respect to anti-bribery and corruption and other cross-border issues. She frequently advises on the development of compliance and integrity programs and counsels clients in advance of strategic transactions, and she represents clients in complex litigation matters arising from cross-border disputes.

Elizabath (Lisa) Vicens
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2524
evicens@cgsh.com
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Jonathan Kolodner
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2690
jkolodner@cgsh.com
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Jonathan Kolodner is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

His practice focuses on white-collar criminal enforcement and regulatory matters as well as complex commercial litigation. He represents clients in investigations involving a range of misconduct, including foreign corruption, fraud, insider trading, money laundering, and antitrust offenses, and advises companies on cybersecurity and data privacy issues, and counsels clients on best practices for anti-corruption and cyber-related compliance programs. Prior to joining Cleary in 2012, Jon spent 12 years as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he served in various leadership positions, including as the Acting Chief of the Criminal Division and the Chief of the Complex Frauds Unit. 

Russia

Yulia Solomakhina is a partner based in Cleary’s Moscow office.

Her practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital markets, and other cross-border transactions involving businesses in Russia. Her experience extends beyond transactional work into Russian regulatory matters, including antitrust and foreign strategic investments law matters, as well as privacy and data protection.

Yulia Solomakhina
Partner

Moscow
T: +7 495 660 8588
ysolomakhina@cgsh.com
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United
Kingdom

James Norris-Jones
Partner

London
T: +44 20 7614 2336
jnorrisjones@cgsh.com
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James Norris-Jones is a disputes partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Based in London, James has substantial experience of English and international commercial dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration, investigations, and enforcement. He has particular experience in banking and financial services disputes, commercial contract disputes, shareholder and joint venture disputes. Many of his cases have involved cross-border issues and/or proceedings in foreign jurisdictions. James has extensive experience in crisis management and risk management, advising multinational clients on high-stakes matters involving securities fraud, asset tracing, insolvency, cyber-security breaches, data privacy incidents and reputation management.

James Brady is a partner based in Cleary’s London office.

James’ investigations experience includes advising on urgent and sensitive internal investigations and representing clients in enforcement actions by regulatory and law enforcement authorities both in the UK and internationally. He also has an active litigation practice, and has been recognized as a litigation “Rising Star” and as a “next generation partner” for his banking litigation practice. 

James Brady
Partner

London
T: +44 20 7614 2364
jbrady@cgsh.com
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United
States

Jennifer Kennedy Park
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2357
jkpark@cgsh.com
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Jennifer Kennedy Park is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

Her practice focuses on white-collar defense, crisis management, enforcement actions, compliance programs and complex disputes. She has handled some of the most complicated matters affecting corporate entities in the past few years and advises global corporations and financial institutions on interactions with regulators and authorities, including regularly interacting with DOJ, FRB, OCC, CFTC, SEC, DFS, FINRA, OFAC, state attorney generals, European Commission, UK FCA, SFO, and other authorities around the world.

Joon Kim is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

His practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, regulatory enforcement, and crisis management, as well as complex commercial litigation and arbitration. A recognized leader of the bar, he is regularly called upon to represent companies, boards, and senior executives in their most serious criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as commercial disputes. From 2017 to 2018, he served as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the chief federal law enforcement officer in the District overseeing an office of over 220 federal prosecutors and civil litigators.  Prior to that, he served as the Deputy U.S. Attorney, Chief of the Criminal Division, and Chief Counsel. 

Joon Kim
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2950
jkim@cgsh.com
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Breon Peace
Partner

New York
T: +1 212 225 2059
bpeace@cgsh.com
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Breon S. Peace is a partner based in Cleary’s New York office.

His practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters, crisis management and complex litigation. He regularly conducts sensitive internal investigations on behalf of boards of directors and management of leading corporations and represents domestic and multinational corporations and business executives in regulatory and criminal investigations.  Breon frequently handles matters involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and authorities around the world.  He also advises corporations on crisis management, corporate governance issues and compliance programs.  Breon previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York where he prosecuted criminal cases and taught a course on criminal prosecution at New York University School of Law.