Richard Bardenstein

Richard Bardenstein is a lawyer and strategic consultant with 20 years of experience in business and government. Based in Jerusalem, Israel, Bardenstein handles a broad range of corporate transactions on behalf of clients over four continents, as well as government relations and taxation matters. His clients have included VC companies, hi-tech start-ups, a diamond mining conglomerate, international consortia bidding on public infrastructure tenders, major media organizations, government ministries, and charitable foundations, among others. He served as an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and to Israel's Justice Minister. Bardenstein has a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA summa cum laude from the University of Michigan.
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Joseph W. Bartlett

Joseph Bartlett is of Counsel in the New York City office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Bartlett's focus is on alternative investments, including venture capital, particularly for high-technology companies. He has been profiled in trade publications as one of the leading practitioners in venture capital nationwide. His practice focuses on emerging companies, initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, private equity finance and buyouts. For the past 43 years Bartlett has practiced in the corporate securities/finance sector. His representations ranging from multi-billion dollar reorganizations (Tandem Computer into Compaq; DBL Liquidating Trust, disposing of Drexel assets) to the organization of start-ups and assisting in the seed round. His published materials and teaching assignments focus on the journey from the "embryo to the IPO." He is the founder and chairman of VC Experts.com and Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Venture Capital. Bartlett has a BA from Harvard and his LLB from Stanford.
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Francois de Billy

Francois de Billy has been an attorney for twenty five years. His areas of specialty include: general business, telecommunications and media. de Billy has worked with public and private clients and has also focused his legal expertise on governance and compliance issues with various regulatory entities in Canada. de Billy holds a LLB from Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
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Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen is an AV-rated business lawyer with over 20 years experience as a corporate counsel. Cohen has specific experience counseling clients concerning issues of contracts, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, licensing, litigation management, advertising, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, termination, discrimination, federal and state employment laws, anti-trust, and corporate communications. During his legal career, Cohen has headed the legal and compliance functions and served on the Executive Management teams for multi-national as well as public and private companies, including NEC Technologies, Dragon Systems, BroadVision, and Emptoris. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law and is a member of the board of directors of the West End House Camp and Temple Beth Avodah. Cohen has a BA and MBA from Clark University and a JD from Suffolk University.
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Kevin Hein

Kevin Hein is a partner with the Denver office of Snell & Wilmer LLP, where he serves as head of the firm's franchise and distribution practice. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. After law school, Hein served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Zita L. Weinsheink, United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Hein is the founding chairman of the Colorado Bar Association Subsection on Franchise Law, and also served from 1998 to 2001 as the Young Lawyers Division Liaison to the ABA Forum on Franchise Law. Hein has served as a member of the ABA Forum Governing Committee, Publications Committee, and as the Tenth Circuit editor for the Forum Publication Enforcement of Covenants Against Competition in Franchise Agreements (Second Edition).

Hein has published several articles on franchise-related topics and has spoken at regional and national franchise conferences, including the American Bar Association Forum on Franchise Law Annual Meeting, the Franchise Finance Conference, the Restaurant Finance and Development Conference, and the Fourth Annual Restaurant Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Forum, the 2004 Restaurant Leadership Conference, and the International Franchise Association's Annual Legal Symposium. Hein has been quoted as an expert in franchise law in the Wall Street Journal (online edition), New York Times, Denver Post, Denver Business Journal, Franchise Times, Nations Restaurant News, and Restaurants and Institutions Magazine.
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Adam Philipp

Adam Philipp has been involved in the prosecution of patent applications in the computer science, electrical devices, and related fields since 1998, and with Internet and technology related law since 1995. He also counsels clients on patentability and infringement matters. His varied practical experiences range from distributed object oriented programming to etching of integrated circuits. His area of emphasis covers a wide variety of patent, trademark and trade secret issues, with particular focus on network and security related applications. Typical clients of Philipp's are Internet software and service companies and other network related software designers. Philipp speaks fluent Hebrew and basic Japanese.
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