Climbing Above the Culture Clash
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with <strong>the</strong> intellectual property department of<br />
Lovells.<br />
Minoru Takana is a senior manager with<br />
<strong>the</strong> intellectual property alliance & licensing<br />
department and intellectual property division<br />
of Sony.<br />
2004<br />
Natasha Aljalian welcomed Gabriel. She is<br />
an associate in Goodwin Procter’s litigation<br />
department.<br />
Yuan-Yi Fang returned to Taiwan and is<br />
assistant professor of law at Ale<strong>the</strong>ia University.<br />
Joachim Knoll is partner at dispute resolution<br />
firm Brown & Page in Geneva.<br />
Caroline Ming is with International Legal<br />
Counsel at SGS Group in Geneva.<br />
2005<br />
Eiji Hagio is an advisor with <strong>the</strong> investment<br />
management & advisory group of Tokyo Electric<br />
Power Company. He and his new fiancée plan to<br />
marry by year’s end.<br />
Makiko Harigai is with Cisco Systems Japan in<br />
Tokyo.<br />
Pauline Loiseleur des Longchamps is an intern<br />
with Veolia in Milwaukee.<br />
Giorgio Recine is a partner with Agnoli Bernardi<br />
and Associati in Milan.<br />
Joerg Struempe is at Quinn Emanuel LLP in<br />
Silicon Valley.<br />
2006<br />
Mathilde Cabanettes is junior in-house<br />
counsel for Atos Origin, a French software and<br />
computing services company.<br />
Santiago Lynch and his family welcomed<br />
Gonzalo.<br />
Stefan Rath is with Bank Vontobel in Munich.<br />
2007<br />
Xun Feng and his wife, Wei-Wu, welcomed Nancy.<br />
Qiqi Huang and her husband are living in<br />
Chicago and welcomed Nelson.<br />
Vera Martinez was mentioned in October’s<br />
LatinLawyer. Vera was one of <strong>the</strong> lawyers who<br />
negotiated <strong>the</strong> acquisition of Aeropuertos<br />
Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for <strong>the</strong><br />
global private equity firm Advent International.<br />
The transaction marks <strong>the</strong> first Dominican<br />
leveraged buyout and <strong>the</strong> largest Caribbean<br />
infrastructure financing in recent years.<br />
Thanarak Naowarat is a presiding judge of <strong>the</strong><br />
Central Intellectual Property and International<br />
Trade Court in Thailand.<br />
Shizuka Sayama welcomed a baby daughter.<br />
Florian von Eyb and his wife, Stephanie,<br />
celebrated <strong>the</strong>ir wedding last year.<br />
2008<br />
Andrea Armelin da Cunha is <strong>the</strong> Angola project<br />
coordinator at <strong>the</strong> World Bank.<br />
Georgios Kazas is an associate attorney at<br />
Zisis Constantinou and Partners, specializing in<br />
criminal law.<br />
Mayalen Lacabarats is at Dechert LLP in Paris.<br />
Sara Mahboob is a project/research manager<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Center for Economic Research in<br />
Pakistan.<br />
Francesco Spreafico and his wife, Manú, were<br />
married last year and are in New York, where he<br />
is at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.<br />
Sawako Yasuda is in-house counsel at Daikin<br />
Industries.<br />
Helen Yost and her husband, Bill, welcomed<br />
Edward James.<br />
Xiaoxiao Zhou is an associate with Fangda<br />
Partners.<br />
Carolina Rossini received a grant from <strong>the</strong><br />
Open Society Institute for strategy building and<br />
awareness-raising related to open educational<br />
resources in Brazil. She is with <strong>the</strong> Harvard<br />
Berkman Center and FGV Law School in Sao Paolo.<br />
Graduate Program<br />
in Banking and<br />
Financial Law<br />
1989<br />
Ricardo Charvel has worked for <strong>the</strong> past four<br />
years for CEMEX in Monterrey, Mexico, as VP<br />
of institutional relations and communication<br />
in Mexico, responsible for government affairs,<br />
community relations, media relations and<br />
corporate social responsibility. He is also<br />
affiliated with Patrimonio Hoy, a microfinance<br />
firm geared for home improvement for very lowincome<br />
families.<br />
1991<br />
Andres Lapadula (Caracas, Venezuela) won<br />
LatinLawyer’s Deal of <strong>the</strong> Year 2008 Award for<br />
<strong>the</strong> restructuring of <strong>the</strong> Orinoco oil projects. He<br />
also led <strong>the</strong> team that represented Venezolano<br />
de Credito S.A., Banco Universal, Venezuelan<br />
trustee in <strong>the</strong> refinancing of <strong>the</strong> HAMACA<br />
(PDVSA, Chevron and ConocoPhillips) and<br />
SINCOR (PDVSA, French oil company Total, and<br />
Norway’s StatoilHydro) heavy oil projects in <strong>the</strong><br />
Orinoco belt.<br />
1994<br />
Dave Morganelli was appointed chair of <strong>the</strong><br />
federal and state tax committee of <strong>the</strong> Rhode<br />
Island Society of CPAs. Dave chairs <strong>the</strong> tax<br />
practice at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP in<br />
Providence. He is a member of <strong>the</strong> Alumni<br />
Association Board of Governors of Providence<br />
College and is chairman of <strong>the</strong> Town of Milford<br />
Finance Committee.<br />
1995<br />
Paul Johnson was appointed a member of <strong>the</strong><br />
board of directors of American Capital Partners.<br />
Paul has conducted a national and international<br />
securities and corporate legal practice since<br />
1992. He is a member of <strong>the</strong> Policy & Economics<br />
Council of Gerson Lehrman Group, an<br />
investment research firm.<br />
1997<br />
Michael Spivey is vice president of global<br />
compliance for Wal-Mart International. Since<br />
joining Wal-Mart in 2003, he has advised<br />
multiple business segments, including serving<br />
as Patriot Act compliance officer.<br />
1998<br />
Ramiro Barbosa launched a law firm, Barbosa<br />
Abogados, in Buenos Aires, where his main<br />
practice areas are banking and financial<br />
law, loan restructuring, capital markets and<br />
mergers and acquisitions. He is featured in The<br />
International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers.<br />
1999<br />
Ricardo Calderon became partner of Ritch<br />
Mueller, SC.<br />
Andrew Morganti is with Sutts Strosberg LLP<br />
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