Robert A. Kindler is Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. He received a B.A. from Colgate University in 1976 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1980. He is on the board of trustees of Colgate University, the board of directors of March of Dimes (New York division) and the board of directors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for JPMorgan from 2000 to 2006 and previously was a senior partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions for more than 20 years.

Dennis K. Berman is an editor at The Wall Street Journal. Berman covers M&As for the newspaper, and writes The Game, a column for the paper. Berman previously wrote for Business Week.

Richard E. Climan is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish business department. He heads the firm’s mergers & acquisitions group and is a member of the firm’s management committee. He is based in the firm’s Palo Alto and San Francisco offices.

In the course of his practice in the mergers & acquisitions area, Mr. Climan represents both public and private companies in a broad range of industries and sectors, including the technology and life sciences sectors. He regularly handles transactions of all sizes (from multibillion dollar deals to those valued at $100 million or less) and has negotiated some of the largest mergers ever completed in the software, semiconductor equipment, biotechnology and medical devices sectors.

The National Law Journal named Mr. Climan one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2006. In addition, in 2005, 2006 and 2007, Mr. Climan was named one of the 500 leading lawyers in America by Lawdragon. He is included in The Best Lawyers in America; EuroMoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers; the Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers; the International Who’s Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers; and the International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers. He was also named one of the “Top Ten Silicon Valley Lawyers” by The Lawyer magazine.

In addition to his work in the acquisitions arena, Mr. Climan handles corporate finance, securities, corporate governance, joint venture and general corporate matters.

Mr. Climan has been with Cooley Godward Kronish since 1994. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at a large, San Francisco-based law firm, where he practiced for 16 years.

Mr. Climan received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1974 and received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1977.

Dennis Hersch is Director of Limited Brands, Inc., and the former global chairman of mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan. Prior to his work with the banking giant, Hersch was a partner with Davis Polk & Wardwell and headed the firm’s M&A practice. Hersch is a graduate of Brooklyn College and New York University School of Law.

Daniel A. Neff is co-chairman of the executive committee and partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which he joined in 1977. He is a corporate and securities lawyer, and has focused principally on mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Neff has been extensively involved in negotiated as well as hostile acquisitions, including a number of the most significant transactions of the past 15 years. He has represented companies in divestitures, cross-border transactions and proxy contests and has counseled managements and boards of directors concerning conflict transactions, corporate governance and similar issues. He lectures frequently on topics relating to his professional interests and was featured in American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Year” article in 2001.

Mr. Neff graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was Notes and Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Ellen Odoner heads Weil, Gotshal & Manges’s Public Company Advisory group, which advises U.S. public companies and U.S.-listed foreign private issuers on SEC disclosure, restatements and internal control issues, Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and corporate governance matters. She is one of the leaders of the firm’s high-stakes corporate counseling team. She also specializes in merger & acquisition and securities transactions, particularly those with cross-border elements.

Ms. Odoner provides disclosure, SOXA and governance advice to boards of directors, audit committees, special committees, disclosure committees and legal and financial officers of U.S. and non-U.S. companies. Representative clients include GE, Lehman Brothers, H&R Block, the Special Committee of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, the Audit Committee of EDS, Reuters Group PLC, Hanson plc, Adecco SA, Sotheby’s and UnitedHealth Group.

Ms. Odoner also has extensive experience representing non-U.S. companies in the U.S. and in structuring multijurisdictional transactions to harmonize U.S. and non-U.S. takeover and securities law regimes. She has obtained innovative SEC no-action and exemptive relief to permit or facilitate these types of transactions.