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WALT PATTERSON

Walt Patterson is Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resource Governance Department at Chatham House in London, UK, and a founding member of the International Energy Advisory Council. Born in Canada, he has lived in the UK since 1960. A postgraduate nuclear physicist, he has been actively involved in energy and environment since the late 1960s.

Electricity Vs Fire: The Fight For Our Future is Patterson's fourteenth book. He has also published hundreds of papers, articles and reviews, on topics including nuclear power, coal technology, renewable energy, energy systems, energy policy and electricity. He has been specialist advisor to two Select Committees of the UK House of Commons, an expert witness at many official hearings, a frequent broadcaster and advisor to media, and speaker or chair in conferences around the world. He has been awarded the Melchett Medal of the Energy Institute. The Scientific American 50 named him 'energy policy leader' for his advocacy of decentralized electricity.

Electricity Vs Fire is now available as a free download from Walt Patterson On Energy, <www.waltpatterson.org>, an online archive of his work since 1970. It averages over 800 hits a day, with visits from more than 130 countries.

Bradley Berman is Of Counsel in the Capital Markets Group. Mr. Berman represents domestic and non-U.S. issuers on domestic and international securities offerings of structured products linked to equities, commodities, interest rates, currencies and other underlying assets. Mr. Berman has extensive experience with exchange traded notes. He advised Royal Bank of Canada and RBC Capital Markets, LLC on the first exchange traded note issued by a Canadian issuer into the United States, and has since advised Royal Bank of Canada on a second exchange traded note. He also represented a non-U.S. frequent issuer on all of their exchange traded notes for three years. Mr. Berman advises issuers on shelf registration statements and medium term note programs and issuances exempt from registration under Regulation S, Rule 144A or Section 3(a)(2). Mr. Berman worked on many bank note issuances by state and national banks. Mr. Berman also advises broker-dealers on the FINRA communication rules and suitability issues. His work previously involved capital-raising debt and equity transactions for large bank holding companies, including several common stock issuances. He has extensive experience with negotiating underwriting, distribution, and dealer agreements and related deal documents, including indentures. Recently, Mr. Berman advised an issuer on establishing a registered structured warrant program, including post-effectively amending their registration statement to add a new class of warrants and drafting the issuer's first warrant indenture. Mr. Berman is co-author of Considerations for Foreign Banks Financing in the United States (2012, updated 2014, 2016), published by the International Financial Law Review.Education Rochester Institute of Technology (B.F.A.) Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1995).

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Hillel Cohn specializes in securities regulatory matters, including representation of foreign banking organizations, broker-dealers and investment advisers on securities compliance and regulatory issues. Mr. Cohn assists such clients with designing their operations and products to comply with applicable laws, provides advice on securities compliance issues and provides counsel in their dealings with the SEC, FINRA and other U.S. regulatory authorities. In addition, he has worked on a number of acquisitions, joint ventures, correspondent agreements, financings and restructurings of broker-dealers and investment advisers.

Mr. Cohn also advises public companies with respect to corporate governance, SEC compliance, securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has extensive experience handling public offerings of equity, debt and real estate securities and has also represented a number of emerging technology and life science companies in dozens of venture financings.

Mr. Cohn assists public companies ranging from small-cap issuers to NYSE listed companies with SEC reporting and compliance. Mr. Cohn has counseled a number of public companies with respect to the design and implementation of corporate governance policies and procedures. He also has acted as special counsel to special Board committees appointed to evaluate strategic options, including going private proposals, conduct internal investigations, or review proposed related party transactions.

Mr. Cohn assists public and private companies with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and similar transactions, with notable experience in handling cross border acquisitions and international investments. He has assisted a number of U.S. companies in establishing business operations in China through joint ventures and other business arrangements and he has represented a number of Japanese companies in their acquisitions of publicly held U.S. companies.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Cohn worked for the SEC for seven years and in private practice for 23 years. He has also been named as a 2007-2015 Best Lawyer in America in the field of Securities Law and listed in Super Lawyers magazine from 2004-2013. Mr. Cohn serves on the Greater Los Angeles Division Board of Directors of the American Heart Association.

Remmelt Reigersman is a partner in the New York office and a member of the firm's Tax Department.

His practice is concentrated on federal and international tax matters. Mr. Reigersman advises on a wide variety of sophisticated capital markets transactions and represents issuers, investment banks/financial institutions, and investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities, as well as structured products. Mr. Reigersman's areas of expertise further include restructurings (both in and out of bankruptcy), debt and equity workouts as well as domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and joint ventures.

Travis Batty is a Senior Counsel in Deutsche Bank's Global Equities Legal Department with primary legal coverage of the firm's US structured note, index-linked insurance, proprietary index and related equity derivatives businesses. Mr. Batty is also a co-chair of the Global Deutsche Bank Structured Products Legal Working Group. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Batty spent over 9 years in the Capital Markets practice at Sidley Austin LLP in New York.