Michael Byowitz ( mhbyowitz@wlrk.com ) heads the Antitrust Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, focusing his practice on antitrust law and policy, and principally advising on major domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate takeovers. He represents many clients at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and State Attorneys General in the United States and consults on investigations by foreign antitrust authorities in the European Union, Australia, Canada, Mexico, South America, the United Kingdom and many other jurisdictions.  Mike has been a member of the SIL Council since 1994 and has served as the Section's Chair-Elect and Vice Chair, and as Divisional Chair of  SIL's General, Business Regulation, and Public International Law Divisions.  Mike has also served as Chair of the Section’s International Antitrust Law Committee, Co-Chair of the Section’s Task Force on the use of the antitrust laws to enhance foreign market access, the Section’s liaison to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, the Section’s representative on a tripartite bar group (Canadian, Mexican and U.S. bars) concerning the NAFTA Section 1504 working group on competition law, and was a member of the joint task force of SIL and the ABA Section of Antitrust Law on the interface of trade law and competition law.  He has served several times on  the Section's Long-Range Planning Committee and its Nominating Committee.  Mike authored the competition law chapters of both editions of The International Lawyer’s Deskbook.

Deborah Enix-Ross ( denixross@debevoise.com ) is  the  Litigation Practice Group Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York. She is a Council Member and Chair of the Section’s Strategic Communications Task Force. Deborah has served the Section as a Member of the Governance Task Force, and as Division Chair of the General, Public International Law, Business Regulation, and Comparative Law Divisions. She was a Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Women’s Interest Network, a Member of the Long Range Planning Committee and Section Secretary. Deborah also has served as Vice-Chair of the International Commercial Arbitration Committee and Chair of the Goal IX Committee.

Jeffrey Golden ( Jeffrey.golden@allenovery.com ) joined Allen & Overy as a partner in the international capital markets department in 1994 after 15 years with the leading Wall Street practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He is co-head of Allen & Overy's US law and derivatives practices and has extensive experience of a wide range of capital markets matters including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He acts for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and a broad range of commercial and investment banks, borrowers, arrangers, underwriters and issuers. He has appeared as an expert witness in several high profile derivatives cases and has served on the Financial Markets Law Committee's working groups on Amicus Briefs, Emergency Powers Legislation and Enron v TXU (Chair), the Financial Law Panel's working groups on agency dealings by fund managers and other intermediaries and building societies legislation, on the Federal Trust's working group on European securities regulation and on the European Commission's study group, the City of London joint working group and ISDA task forces on the legal aspects of monetary union. He is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law, and is a former co-chair of its International Securities and Capital Markets Committee and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

He studied at Duke University, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Columbia University School of Law, from which he received his J.D. degree with honors in 1978. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation and Derivatives: Tax Regulation Finance and of the Advisory Boards of the Columbia London Law Institute and the Duke Global Capital Markets Center.

Aaron Schildhaus ( aaron@schildhaus.com ) is Principal, Law Offices of Aaron Schildhaus, Washington, DC.. His practice encompasses international contracts, joint ventures and other transactions, corporate and NGO representation world-wide, international corruption issues, off-shore and US clients, data protection, export controls and legal reform. Aaron specializes in matters involving Europe as well as developing countries. He has been an active member of the Section since 1986, having chaired the International Service Industries Committee, the International Aviation and Aerospace Law Committee, the Law Student and New Lawyer Outreach Committee, and the International NGO and Not-for-Profit Organization Committee (NGO Committee), in each case, for multiple

Darrell Prescott ( prescottd@coudert.com ) is a Partner in the New York office of Coudert Brothers LLP, and is chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust Practice. He specializes in civil antitrust litigation, complex commercial litigation, international arbitrations, distributor relations, Hart-Scott-Rodino and multinational pre-merger approvals. Darrell has practiced antitrust law and commercial litigation for over 25 years, representing defendants and plaintiffs in cases under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act; Sections 2, 3, 7, and 8 of the Clayton Act; and Article 81 of the E.U. Treaty. Industries with which he has worked include: aircraft, apparel, insurance, automobiles, banking, compressors, farm equipment, food additives, fresh fruit, oil and gas, paper, pharmaceuticals, publishing, real estate and many others. In addition to antitrust matters, Darrell has handled letter of credit litigation, lender liability litigation, stock appraisal proceedings following cash-out mergers, and mortgage foreclosures on major commercial properties. He served as co-Editor of and contributor to the Section’s book Joint Ventures in the International Arena. Darrell also served as Chair of the Publications Board of the Section from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he was the Section's Programs Chair. Darrell is listed in the 2004 Guide to the World's Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

John Magnus (john.magnus@starpower.net) is a trade lawyer in Washington, DC and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Within the SIL, John has spent several years in the leadership of the International Trade Committee, including as Co-Chair from 2000-02; he currently serves as the Section’s liaison to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and represented the Section at the 2004 Cancun WTO Ministerial. John has also served on numerous Section task forces and working groups focused on international antitrust issues, been a frequent program chair for trade-related programs, and helped plan several Section Spring Meetings.

Salli Anne Swartz (sswartz@pgparis.com) is a name partner with the Paris, France firm Phillips Giraud Naud & Swartz and has over 25 years of experience representing French and foreign multinational companies in connection with their business activities in France, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Salli is the ABA delegate to the Union Internationale des Avocats, Section Council Member, past Editor-in-Chief of the International Law News, Chair of the Paris chapter of the Section’s Women’s Interest Network and Section Publications Officer. She is also the Co-Editor of and a chapter contributor to the Section books Careers in International Law 2nd Ed. and Joint Ventures in the International Arena and has contributed a chapter to the Section book Negotiating and Structuring International Commercial Transactions 2nd Ed.

Gabrielle Buckley (gbuckley@vedderprice.com) is a Shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price, where she practices in the Corporate Practice Area. Gabrielle counsels U.S.- and foreign-based companies on employment-related immigration laws, on immigration law issues arising in corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other forms of corporate reorganization, and advises employers regarding hiring and compliance issues. She serves as a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s 12-member Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono, and has co-chaired this Section’s Immigration & Nationality Committee. She also serves as Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s International and Foreign Law Committee. She is a frequent speaker on business immigration and international law matters, and is an Adjunct Professor at the John Marshall Law School.

Steven E. Hendrix (shendrix@usaid.gov) is the Acting Team Leader for Democracy Programs with the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. He chairs the multi-donor consultative group on anticorruption and is responsible for developing and supervising foreign policy initiatives on rule of law, legislative and judicial reform, civil society participation, local government and human rights. Steve holds a fellowship with the DePaul College of Law International Human Rights Law Institute. A licensed attorney in Bolivia, Guatemala, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, with over 50 professional journal publications and an award-winning book, he has been an active Section member since 1987, and serves as the Section’s Goal VIII Officer (which includes the Technical Legal Assistance Board - TLAB, ABA/United Nations Development Program (UNDP) International Legal Resource Center Board - ILRC, Francis Shattuck Security and Peace Institute and International Legal Exchange Committee - ILEX). He is on the Section Administration Committee and Section Council, and serves on the ABA Latin America Legal Initiatives Council (by ABA Presidential appointment). Previously, Steve was an ABA Presidential representative to help explore mediation settlement options on certain high profile property conflicts in Nicaragua, and participated as an organizer for the Central America ILEX trip.

Josh Markus ( jmarkus@carltonfields.com ) is a Shareholder in the Miami office of Carlton Fields, P.A., where he is the Chair of the firm’s International Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Corporate, Securities, Taxation, and Asset-Based Financing Practice Group. Josh practices international and domestic corporate law including joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial practice in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. In particular, he focuses on acquisitions and sales of businesses, joint ventures, distribution of goods and services, direct marketing, intellectual property licensing, entertainment oriented matters, sports event production (soccer tournaments in particular),  wireless telecommunication  and general corporate transactional and operational matters including cable television, television production, satellite television, and wholesale and retail consumer product and service distribution. Josh has served as the Section’s Chair (2003 - 2004), Chair-Elect (2002-2003), Vice Chair (2001-2002), and Budget Officer. He also has chaired the Section’s Long Range Planning Committee, General Division, Public International Law Division, Comparative Law Division, Membership Committee, and Inter American Law Committee. Josh also was the Project Director of the ABA’s Haitian Technical Assistance Project, and the ABA Spokesperson on Haitian Issues. He is presently the ABA’s Representative to the Council of the InterAmerican Bar Association  , a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Membership  and one of the Section's two delegates to the ABA House of Delegates.        

Kenneth B. Reisenfeld (ken.reisenfeld@haynesboone.com) is a Partner and Chairs the International Trade and International Dispute Resolution Practice Groups at Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he started the Firm’s Washington, DC office. Ken has over twenty-seven years’ experience representing U.S. and foreign corporations and governmental entities in litigation and arbitration of international commercial, investment and technology disputes, and in international trade litigation, customs, export controls, economic sanctions, and FCPA compliance and enforcement proceedings. He has been active in the Section for over twenty years and just finished his term as Chair of the Section of International Law. Ken is currently Chair of the Section’s Nominating Committee, Liaison to the International Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Section’s Task Force on Reform of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and Chair of the ABA GATS Task Force on Legal Services. He is also an appointed member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.