Presentations

Francisco Zappa is a partner in the Corporate/M&A, Entertainment Law, ICTs and Media, Data Privacy and Real Estate Law departments of Bomchil in Argentina.

His practice focuses on diverse corporate and contractual matters. He has wide experience in fair trade and consumer protection issues and specializes in data protection law.

During 2017, he was an international associate at the New York offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and during 2018 he did a secondment in PepsiCo as Legal Head for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

He is a frequent speaker at chambers of commerce on his areas of expertise and has been recognized in Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Leaders League and other prestigious global publications.

Mark Prevezer is still a practicing lawyer as Senior Consultant/Advisor in a respected central London law firm. His expertise is in cross border real estate and corporate transactions.

He was made a Partner, after 3 years of qualification, and then founded a law firm in the main financial centre, with 2 others, after 5 years of qualification, which grew substantially over 19 years. He was, throughout, its Managing Partner.

Thereafter he joined an international law firm and was its Global Sector Head  (covering some 14 offices worldwide) for over a decade.

During that time, he raised, in just 6 years, its commercial real estate annual global fees from 700 thousand pounds annually, to some 16 million pounds annually (primarily in international cross border real estate/ corporate transactions-and with significant proactive BD).

Having mentored informally, and confidentially, law firms and partners for a decade or more, so the genesis of Silver Fox International Legal Consulting was born https://silverfoxlegalstrategies.com/

He and his co-founder  primarily advise Senior Partners /Law Firms on expansion of areas of practice, equity structures, reward structures, merger , growth strategies, international collaborations, successful local & international business development, internal law firm conflicts and politics, law firm management, international and local growth , raising firm profile (both locally and internationally) and, of course, on profit.

Mark is a well regarded amateur chess player, having been invited to play the world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, on four occasions (and lost)“

Benjamin is a Director in the Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups, as well as Head, Healthcare & Life Sciences – Corporate & Regulatory. He is also a member of the Telecommunications Media and Technology and Information Technology Practice Group and also co-heads the Employment Practice Group.

Benjamin regularly acts for and advises clients on a wide spectrum of mergers and acquisitions and other transactional and corporate and commercial matters. These matters include sale and purchases of companies and corporate assets, amalgamations, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, corporate restructuring as well as general commercial law.

Benjamin heads up the Healthcare and Life Sciences – Corporate and Regulatory practice, and advises on a full spectrum of matters involving the biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries. His experience includes reviewing and drafting clinical trial agreements, patient access programmes, research and development agreements, review of compliance policies, advising on regulatory and ethical concerns, including data and personal privacy concerns especially in the healthcare sector, product liability issues and product recalls.

In relation to technology and corporate intellectual property matters and fintech and blockchain matters, Benjamin regularly advises on legal issues in the commercialisation and exploitation of intellectual property rights, such as research and development agreements, IP licensing and cross-licensing agreements, IP assignments and also franchises and franchising businesses. Benjamin also regularly reviews software licensing agreements, IT procurement and related contracts, website terms of use, and other IT and technology contracts. He also advises on start-ups and early stage investments in technology companies. He also regularly advises on issues relating to the Payment Systems Act, blockchain and cryptocurrencies and other fintech matters.

Benjamin’s practice also includes a strong emphasis on employment law, and he regularly advises clients on the full range of employment issues in the course of an employment relationship, including reviewing employment contracts and handbooks and policies, employee stock option plans, trade unions and collective agreements, to retrenchment and termination of employment. These include preparing and reviewing and advising on employment contracts and handbooks and policies, employee stock option plans, disciplinary matters and investigations, restrictive covenants, retrenchments and contentious and non-contentious termination of employment.

Ashish is a Partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice Group in Khaitan & Co’s Mumbai office. He has well over two decades of experience on advising foreign and Indian corporations, private equity and venture capital funds on corporate and commercial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), private equity and venture capital investments, franchising and also on sports laws.

Ashish works closely with and assists the Firm’s Executive Committee and Managing Partner on key strategic, management and business development initiatives and is a part of the Firm’s Management Team. Ashish is also an officer of the International Bar Association and a former Co-Chair of its India Working Group.

Yixiao is a German qualified lawyer and partner at the leading independent and full-service German law firm, Gleiss Lutz. She focuses on cross-border transactions between Europe and Asia. In particular, Yixiao advises Asian clients (in particular Chinese, Singaporean and Southeast Asian clients) on their investments in Germany and vice versa, German clients on their business activities in Asia.

Yixiao has been recognized as one of the “40 under 40 in Corporate Law” by the German legal directory JUVE in 2025.

Yixiao is passionate about her day-to-day work as an M&A lawyer as well as being a cultural bridge builder. Besides her legal practice, Yixiao is a dedicated yoga practitioner and certified yoga instructor. She also loves to scuba dive around Southeast Asia.